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• I suppose that I am ambitious.

  Antonio Banderas

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• One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

  Bobby Flay

  Holiday, Men, Games

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Martha Stewart Show, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Perseverance, Successful, Quality

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• I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

  Hayley Atwell

  Has Beens

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• I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Girl, Blessed, Awards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  Candace Bushnell

  New York, Cities, People

  "Candace Bushnell On Sex, Money, And Sarah Palin". Interview with Lesley M. M. Blume, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2008.

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• I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

  Charles Cumming

  Ambition, Intelligent, Journey

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• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Bars, Raises, Raising The Bar

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

  Darren Criss

  Fall, Goal, Lap

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• When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

  Steve Coogan

  Careers, Comedy, Students

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• I'm really ambitious.

  Jourdan Dunn

  "'Why are the catwalks so white?'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, People, Goal

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• I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Dream, Fall, Scary

  "Elizabeth Debicki In ‘The Great Gatsby’: Australian Newcomer Grabs Jordan Baker Part", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.

  Joseph Story

  Powerful, Army, Sacrifice

  Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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• I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Fall, Years, Europe

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• I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

  Vincent Gallo

  Stars, Ideas, Actors

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

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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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• Anybody can be ambitious.

  Chris Hughes

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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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• Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read GQ, enjoy Fight Club, and subscribe to Thrillist, while the idea of a guy doing the same with Glamour, 27 Dresses and Daily Candy is nearly unheard of?

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fighting, Ideas, Guy

  "A Movement: The Daily Muse" by Kathryn Minshew, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

  Kelly Macdonald

  Successful, Long, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Children, Amelie, Great Things

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Want

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• I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.

  John Otway

  Stars, Children, Fans

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• My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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