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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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• When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Strong, Kings

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• Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Kingdoms, Provinces

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• If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  "Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models". Interview with Jack Dickey, time.com. November 13, 2014.

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• The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Desire, Firsts

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIX, 1840.

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• The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.

  Mark Shields

  Lonely, Skills, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

  David Byrne

  People, House, Together

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Soul, Delicate

  Charles Baudelaire (1925). “Les fleurs de mal: Petits poèmes en prose, Les paradis artificiels”

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• When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Jealousy, Jobs, People

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• Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Communism, Threat, Environmentalism

  "Monbiot's royal flush: Top 10 climate change deniers" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2009.

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• When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

  Tom DeLonge

  Art, Angel, Thinking

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• The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Mean, Deceiving

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• The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Busy, Stairs, Breathless

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• The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

  D. J. MacHale

  Blood, Leader, Trying

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, War, Fate

  Letter to Andrew I. Crawford, May 1, 1833.

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• Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Trouble, Politician, Good Politicians

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Achievement, Toss

  James Elkins (2005). “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings”, p.6, Routledge

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• Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

  Srikumar Rao

  Giving, Goal, Focus

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• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  John Donne

  Men, Dust, Alive

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?

  Barack Obama

  Simple, America, Long

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Men, Numbers, Benefits

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.

  Gertrude Stein

  Cutting, Democracies Have, Government

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 28 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

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