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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  Rachel Stevens

  Travel, Stuff, Determined

  "Club class". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.

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• Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

  Richard Russo

  Smart, Safe, Neighbor

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• The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Badass, People, Brave

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

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• I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Russia

  "Transcript: George H.W. Bush on "FOX News Sunday". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

  Gore Vidal

  Years, Want, Able

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• The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

  Arthur Quinn

  Government, Omission, People

  Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.7, Routledge

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• I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Art, Successful, Goal

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.

  Kurt Squire

  Technology, Design, Community

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• I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Wanted, Movie Actors

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• I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

  Rob Brown

  Guy, Trying, Realizing

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• I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

  Sara Canning

  School, Students, Theater

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• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Fire, Envy, Hot

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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• Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

  George Washington

  Country, Real, War

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• I had always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form... a beautiful house, beautiful man, a beautiful life and image. I was ambitious to get the money which would attain all that for me.

  Joan Crawford

  Beautiful, Men, House

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

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• I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

  Emeli Sande

  People, Events, Albums

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Class, Hypocrisy, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, People, Interesting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The desire to reach hearts is wise

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Heart, Ambition

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Running, Thinking, Goal

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• I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Character, Men

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• If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

  Laszlo Bock

  Crazy, Goal, Achievement

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• I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Want, Mediocre, Great Things

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• My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.

  Megan Gallagher

  Careers, Focus, Priorities

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• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Girl, Sex

  1846-8 Dombey and Son, ch.1.

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