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• Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

  Graham Norton

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

  Leland Ryken

  Self, Levels, Want

  "Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.

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• The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.

  Anuj

  Dream, Team, Differences

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• I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Artist, Dating

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• Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

  Kelly Brook

  Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Pain, Meditation

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• Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I develop if it were my money? I'm amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.

  Kent Beck

  Style, Development, Argument

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• The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Imagination, Pleasure

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Men, Becoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons

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• Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Sibling, Taken, People

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• The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

  Pope Gregory I

  Real, Angel, Heaven

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• We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.

  Trip Hawkins

  Looks, Economy, Wells

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• Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.

  John Lescroart

  New York, Real, Moving

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• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Intelligent, Obsession, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.

  Janet Burroway

  Girl, Fall, Musical

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• Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Book, Thinking, Economic Inequality

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• I believe people I represent still aspire to the idea that our job as a generation is to provide more opportunity to the people coming after us, not less.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Believe, Opportunity

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness And I believe greatness is within our grasp.

  Sonny Perdue

  Believe, Greatness, Georgia

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• If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.

  Craig Stone

  Dream, Creating, People

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• I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Unique, Way, Drivers

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• Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Giving, Trying, Credit

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• Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

  George Bellows

  Art, Magnificence, Strive

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• Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

  Clayton Christensen

  Decisions You Make, Blood, Sweat

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