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  Bonnie Gillespie

  Class, Acting, Want

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• Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Moving, Absorbing

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• Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Heart, Sides, Corruption

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• The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind

  Milton R. Hunter

  Jesus, Morning, Brother

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• A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

  James Keller

  Music, Writing, Men

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• It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, People, Priorities

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• We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

  James Kavanaugh

  Beautiful, Wall, Giving

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• Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Business, Humility

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• The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivational, Goal, Process

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• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

  George Will

  People, Political, Agendas

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• Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

  Tim Ferriss

  Goal, Focus, Doubt

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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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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• 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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• I dream about having a house by the water and not doing anything, not feeling ambitious, nor having the need to make money.

  Lee Pace

  Dream, Water, House

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• You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Stars, Opportunity, Hands

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• After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. () So it was important to me after Titanic to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Important, Desire

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• Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Taken, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.

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• Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Limited Resources, Fit, Strategy

  "The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company". Book by Donald Soderquist (p. 178), April 21, 2005.

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• If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Ambition, Entrepreneur, Want

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• To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

  Josephine Hart

  Ambition, Winning, Games

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ambition, Suffering, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ambition, Men, Evil

  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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• With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition, Suggestions, Purpose

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• Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Bird, Might, Truth Is

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