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Ambition Quotes
What ambition promises, and what it actually pays out.
This set treats ambition with some skepticism alongside encouragement - one line insists ambition is necessary even without guaranteed success, another calls it avarice dressed up. Related: Goal.
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I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.
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The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
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