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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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• When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

  Pharrell Williams

  Feelings, Trying, Albums

  Source: collider.com

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• Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Self, Goal

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• The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, People

  "Stripper culture riles up Christina Ricci" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Strong, Responsibility

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Grief, Stories

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• People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

  Veronica Roth

  Father, People, Tobias

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• As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

  Indra Nooyi

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar, p. 225, 2016.

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Inspiring, Girl, Women

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Ought

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Teacher, Responsibility

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• One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.

  Allen Dulles

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

  Claire Danes

  Women, Lucky, Misfits

  Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. April 23, 2007.

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• And thou my minde aspire to higher things;
  Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

  Philip Sidney

  Knowledge, Rust, Rich

  Certain Sonnets no. 32, l. 1 (written 1577 - 1581)

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• Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Love Is, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Law, Taste

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vision, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Sex, Should, Determine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.

  Mark Indelicato

  Years, America, Role Models

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.

  Zendaya

  Running, People, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective, and I would argue the majority perspective in America.

  Andrew Breitbart

  America, Perspective, Actors

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

  Bruno Mars

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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