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• Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

  Tom Hardy

  Littles, Matter, Milk

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• Anybody can be ambitious.

  Chris Hughes

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• I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

  Katherine Helmond

  Actors, Good Actors, Seems

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• If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Leadership, Determined, Gifted

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• Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Giving, Choices, Tvs

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• I'm not very ambitious at all.

  Amy Winehouse

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• I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

  Jason Isbell

  Wise, Thinking, Careers

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Drama, Party

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• I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

  Ricky Whittle

  Want, Determined, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

  Anthony Minghella

  Mountain, Hollywood, Patient

  "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Mean, Deceiving

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• The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Busy, Stairs, Breathless

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• The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

  D. J. MacHale

  Blood, Leader, Trying

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Toss

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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• Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, War, Fate

  Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

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• Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Trouble, Politician, Good Politicians

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

  Srikumar Rao

  Giving, Goal, Focus

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• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  John Donne

  Men, Dust, Alive

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?

  Barack Obama

  Simple, America, Long

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Men, Numbers, Benefits

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.

  Gertrude Stein

  Cutting, Democracies Have, Government

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 28 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

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• For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

  Margaret Mead

  Reflection, Ideas, Political

  "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

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