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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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• In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Girl, Successful, Reality

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

  Michael Urie

  Perspective, Trying, Acting

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• I'm really ambitious about is being a really good comic and doing it for the rest of my life and getting really big. Not really famous because I want fame or attention, just a little freedom. So, that's where I'm ambitious.

  Jen Kirkman

  Attention, Want, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

  Anthony Minghella

  Mountain, Hollywood, Patient

  "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

  Ricky Whittle

  Want, Determined, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Drama, Party

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• I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

  Jason Isbell

  Wise, Thinking, Careers

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• I'm not very ambitious at all.

  Amy Winehouse

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• Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Giving, Choices, Tvs

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• If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Leadership, Determined, Gifted

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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

  Freeman Dyson

  Ambition, Goal, Needs

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.280, Pantheon

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• Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

  Walter Cronkite

  Integrity, Government, People

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• The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, People, Aristocracy

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• It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

  William Osler

  Men, Mind, Body

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• It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

  Jil Sander

  Design, Sound, May

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• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dream, Jesus, Destiny

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• Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Light, Flames

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Boys

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

  Ronda Rousey

  Girl, Ambition, Mma

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• ... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Humorous, Picturesque

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• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  Clare Balding

  Thinking, Adjectives, Way

  "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

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