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• I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

  Ronaldo

  Ambition, Want, Enjoy

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• A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.

  John Adams

  Years, Long, Vacancy

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.195

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• Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ambition, Clown, Grocers

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.

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• For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?

  Lillian Smith

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it? ... A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

  Daniel Webster

  Military, Men, America

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• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Selfish, Passion

  Letter to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

  Art Spiegelman

  Ambition, Reality, Understanding

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult considering I'm very neurotic. On the inside, I'm very chilled - but on the outside I'm a big mess of worry!

  Monique Coleman

  Worry, Peaceful, Sentimental

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.

  Christophe Honore

  Years, Long, Musical

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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• 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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• "The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Insecure, Thinking

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Humble, People, Resilient

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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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• An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Dream, Fever, Want

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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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• 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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• My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

  Howard Dean

  Energy, Different, Levels

  "Dean on peeves, profanity and feet". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

  Sean Lennon

  Good Life, Nice, Would Be

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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