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• Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.

  Mal Fletcher

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

  "Millennials. They’re Kind of A Big Deal" by Trudy Bourgeois, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2016.

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• When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something like that and aim high. You're probably not going to get beyond your dreams. So you might as well make them big.

  Jon Gordon

  Dream, World, Might

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• My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Kids, Parent, Messages

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Doe, Kind, Forgotten

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.17, Penguin

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• The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Heart, Essence

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Television

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.

  Chris Lowell

  People, Actors, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

  Dalai Lama

  Ethical Principles, Want, Ethics

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• Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.

  Isaac Asimov

  Hate, Fighting, Intelligent

  Isaac Asimov (1987). “Past, Present, and Future”

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• To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).

  Leopold von Ranke

  Past, Judging, Office

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• For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Two, Differences, Asymmetry

  Zygmunt Bauman (1988). “Freedom”

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• Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the
  prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eye, Land, Heaven

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• "30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

  Fred Armisen

  Writing, People, Wish

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

  Christopher Reeve

  Giving Up, Caring, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.

  Ella T. Grasso

  Thinking, President, Woods

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?
  Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Order, Poetry

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• We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.

  Steve Ells

  Tortillas, Scales

  "Chipotle’s Quest to Develop a Better Tortilla" by Stephanie Strom, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Light, Philosopher, Mystery

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light, Flying, Want

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• All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

  Nicolas Cage

  Labels, Levels

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

  Steve Reich

  Legs, Absurd, Comparison

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

  Dan Harmon

  Dream, Real, Teeth

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• Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.

  Andre Benjamin

  Knowing, People, Nerd

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