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• I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

  Edward Furlong

  Fighting, Roles, Hard

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

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• I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Moving, Want, Impatient

  Broadway Bullet Interview, www.broadwaybullet.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

  David M. Brown

  America, Thought Provoking, Ongoing

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• When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Ideas, Trying

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• ... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Sleep, Voice, Littles

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• The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Found, Vocation

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.77, New World Library

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• I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

  Gareth Bale

  Champions League, Play, Want

  "Tottenham's future looks bright ... just give us time, says Gareth Bale" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

  Ron Conway

  Work Ethic, Tough, Ethics

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• Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Farewell, Australia

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.499, Graphic Arts Books

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• Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Parent, Humans

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• In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

  Mason Cooley

  Beautiful, Body, Assets

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• If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Office, Profound

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Projects, Optimist, Norm

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Trying, Balls

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• I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

  Henry Rollins

  Realization, Very Good, Capable

  "HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Like Stress; It Keeps Me Rockin''". "Full Metal Jackie" with Jackie Kajzer, www.blabbermouth.net. December 30, 2012.

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• I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

  Jessica Clark

  Who I Am, Interesting, Expenses

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• It's not fair to look at me and my husband as a couple when it comes to work. In the lab we are colleagues. We have the same vision and we both are very ambitious. I think ambitious people find ambitious people to play with.

  May-Britt Moser

  Couple, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.

  Andrew Skurka

  Skills, Cabins, Fever

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• Young people, especially young men due to culture and perhaps testosterone, dream about changing the world, making an impact, doing big things. Now our young people are told life was better in the past, that we should be less ambitious and hold on to what we have. The grand narratives of exploration and change that drove the world forward for a century have been tamed.

  Garry Kasparov

  Dream, Past, Men

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview With Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• My mom was terrific. I described my mom once. If fear was a color, she was color blind. Nothing frightened her. If I told her that I was going to take over General Motors, she'd say, "You can do it." Just the most preposterous things, ambitious things, she said, "You can do it."

  Les Wexner

  Mom, Blind, General Motors

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just part of the business. We have to improve all our cinemas. In France, we're not looking to open many more screens, but rather to raise the standards of our current cinemas.

  Jerome Seydoux

  Source: variety.com

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