Aspire Quotes - Page 14

• I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

  John Legend

  Kids, Speak, Should

  "John Legend On Marriage, Music And 'Genius' Kanye West". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2013.

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• Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

  Walter Mosley

  Men, Sky, Black

  Walter Mosley (2013). “Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

  Faith Ringgold

  Daughter, Men, Feminist

  Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  Charles Martinet

  Falling In Love, Princess, Voice

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• If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

  George Santayana

  Art, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

  Louis Bacon

  Winning, Gold, Olympics

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• Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.

  William E. Simon

  Healthy, Ethical, Parasites

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• Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Believe, Hard Work

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.

  Enoch Powell

  Military, Europe, Drawing

  "Enoch Powell on 1992". Book by Enoch Powell, p. 93. Speech in Grimsby, 1989.

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• How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

  John Calvin

  Choices, Weakness, Facts

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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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• 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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• There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!

  Charles Dickens

  Character, People, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.154

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• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Nerves, Wit

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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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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• God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

  Orville Dewey

  Grace, Chosen

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• The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

  Nan Hayworth

  Government, Profound, Decision

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• I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Opportunity, Roots

  New York Daily News, May 11, 2000.

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• Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

  Alan Keyes

  Abortion, Black, Mind

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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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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• When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Daughter, Hero, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Who aspires must down as low
  As high he soar'd.

  John Milton

  Lows, Soar, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.147

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  Sam Huntington

  Sweet, Brother, Fun

  "Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

  Dawn French

  Zero, Thinking, Want

  "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.

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