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• I am inspired by working professionals who find lots of time for family and friends. It is easy to get caught up in a career, and I personally aspire to maintain strong connections with the people who matter most to me.

  Rose McIver

  Strong, Careers, People

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• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

  Willem Dafoe

  Giving, Stronger, Directors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, film.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

  John Legend

  Kids, Speak, Should

  "John Legend On Marriage, Music And 'Genius' Kanye West". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2013.

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• Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

  William Ellery Channing

  Faithful, Spirit, Faith In God

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses”, p.262

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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, People, Doing What You Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

  George W. Bush

  America, Bully, Liberty

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Winning, Grace, Quality

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• The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Mind, Analogies

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• I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Dresses, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

  Dawn French

  Zero, Thinking, Want

  "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.

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• There are some people that don't take jobs because they think that they're too good for them or that they aspire to do something greater than the job that they're being presented with. I've just never been from that school.

  Busy Philipps

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Film

  "Francis Ford Coppola: What I've Learned" by Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Years, Perfection, People

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.445

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• I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Opportunity, Want, I Want A Woman

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Class, People, Priorities

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"

  Robert Cormier

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with the most important people in government and dealing with the biggest subjects on Earth. The story of the millennia. These are things I aspire to tackle. It doesn't mean I'm going to win on all of them, but God damn, it looks like I've got a pretty good shot at it.

  Tom DeLonge

  Mean, Winning, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Character, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

  Alan Keyes

  Abortion, Black, Mind

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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• I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Opportunity, Roots

  New York Daily News, May 11, 2000.

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• We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

  David Cameron

  Country, Voice, Sound

  David Cameron's Speech aimed at Liberal Democrats: join me in my mission, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Flames, Heaven

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.22

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• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

  Romano Prodi

  Political, World, Want

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