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• For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.

  Robert B. Weide

  Games, Play, Choices

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lexicographer, May, Praise

  A Dictionary of the English Language preface (1755)

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• If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire.
  You do not lift up from this earth.

  Mimi Weddell

  Heaven, Earth, Sake

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• Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Mercy Of God, Mercy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Ghetto, Media

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

  Don Williams

  Capable

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• We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.

  Fred Hassan

  Eight, Years, Challenges

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• Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else

  Prabal Gurung

  Next

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• Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Bishops, Embodiment

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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• Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Lying, People, Ambitious

  "EMMYS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus On 'Veep'". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. June 17, 2012.

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• So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits.

  Michael Phelps

  Dream, Mistake, Hard Work

  Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.1991, Simon and Schuster

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• Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge from the easy cynicism and try to get back to a place where we can actually believe in people and trust people to have proper motivations.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Strong, Motivation, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Real, Inspiration

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage

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• I didn't aspire to be a good sport; "champion" was good enough for me.

  Fred Perry

  Sports, Athlete, Tennis

  "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.

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• Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not qualified to write it, I won't. Instead I'll just say this: The pictures staring out at you from the supermarket checkout stands, the images we are all supposed to aspire to? They lie

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Believe, Book

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• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Character, Google, Age

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• I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.

  Henry van de Velde

  Nature, Believe, Well Being

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• Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

  Og Mandino

  Son, Serenity, Mind

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.23, Bantam

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• When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Women, Character, Civilization

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• Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Accepting

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

  Tobias Wolff

  Home, Boys, Light

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• To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

  Amy Carmichael

  Fall, Heart, Sight

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• My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Moments, My Thoughts

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1998). “Nausea: The Wall and Other Stories : Two Volumes in One”, Fine Communications

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• Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wicked, Would Be, Kind

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.616, Bantam

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