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• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Journey, Cities, Orchestra

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Humble, Humility, Envious

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• But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

  Robert Towne

  Dark, Thinking, Shampoo

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• You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

  John Turturro

  Stars, Thinking, Self

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• Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

  Joe Rogan

  Successful, Games

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• You can't be both happy and ambitious.

  J.A. Konrath

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• It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

  Hillary Clinton

  Goal, Remember, Strive

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Ambition, Disease

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• It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Able, Path

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Tyrants, World Government

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

  George Washington

  Party, Men, People

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Wisdom, Elephants

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Remember

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Names, Honor

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• You exist! Be ambitious!

  Will Evans

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• I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

  Mary Harron

  Age, Six, Young

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

  Russell Baker

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, People

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• I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Support, Competition

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• The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Ambition, Giving

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• I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

  Katy Perry

  Years, Nine, Nine Years

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• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Jobs, Careers, Way

  "Mads Mikkelsen: I never plan my career". Cover Media Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. April 24, 2014.

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• There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

  Patsy Kelly

  Thinking, Seems

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