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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something
different.

Abhishek Bachchan

Identity, Different, Actors

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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

Romano Prodi

Taken, Europe, Political

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Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government.... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case.

Lee Zeldin

War, Government, Justice

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When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

Uell Stanley Andersen

Attitude, Promise, Mind

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Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Dan Simmons

Movie, Three, Four

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Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

George Bellows

Art, Magnificence, Strive

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The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

Pope Gregory I

Real, Angel, Heaven

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Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Giving, Trying, Credit

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Ambition aspires to descend

Pierre Corneille

Ambition

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Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for the next test, this book is a must. I know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.

Daniel T. Willingham

Couple, Memories, Struggle

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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.

Nell Freudenberger

Sibling, Taken, People

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In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires.

James Cash Penney

Lying, Men, Energy

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Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

Rick Poynor

Communication, Responsibility, People

"Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.

James Davison Hunter

Christian, Organization, Political

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Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

Gabriel Zaid

Book, Desire, Half

Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity, India, Dies

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.116, A&C Black

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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moving, Race, India

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

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If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Mahatma Gandhi

Home, Men, Becoming

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.139, Rajpal & Sons

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To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

Christoph Waltz

Moving, Safety Zone, Interesting

Source: collider.com

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Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men, Rights, Noble Man

Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

Stacy Keach

Choices, Actors, Able

Source: www.pbs.org

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Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

John Ralston Saul

Jobs, Servant Of God, Might

John Ralston Saul (1999). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.

Fran Lebowitz

Children, Growing Up, Book

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It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Rolf Dobelli

Envious, Okay, Persons

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All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

Laurie Garrett

Mistake, Scandal, Stories

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