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• Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Parent, Humans

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• Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Farewell, Australia

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.499, Graphic Arts Books

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• Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

  Ron Conway

  Work Ethic, Tough, Ethics

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  Gareth Bale

  Champions League, Play, Want

  "Tottenham's future looks bright ... just give us time, says Gareth Bale" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Found, Vocation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.77, New World Library

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• The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Ignorance, Men

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• I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.

  Jule Styne

  Knowing, Might, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

  Mason Cooley

  Beautiful, Body, Assets

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• An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

  Thomas Overbury

  World, Bees, Troublesome

  "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

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• In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

  Saul Leiter

  Coffee, Successful, Order

  "Saul Leiter". Book by Agnès Sire, 2008.

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• The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

  Scott Belsky

  Risk, Common, Share

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

  G. H. Hardy

  Ambition, Leaving, Firsts

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• I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Past, Creative

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• There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

  Haile Selassie

  Moving, People, Decision

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• The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.

  Andrew Skurka

  Skills, Cabins, Fever

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.

  May-Britt Moser

  Couple, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

  Jessica Clark

  Who I Am, Interesting, Expenses

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• I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

  Henry Rollins

  Realization, Very Good, Capable

  "HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Like Stress; It Keeps Me Rockin''". "Full Metal Jackie" with Jackie Kajzer, www.blabbermouth.net. December 30, 2012.

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• Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Trying, Balls

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• If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Office, Profound

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• ... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Sleep, Voice, Littles

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