My Ambition Quotes - Page 8

• It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

  Paul McCartney

  Ambition, Years, Film

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• The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

  Jack Kirby

  Ambition, Average, Opposites

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Football, Ambition, Thinking

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• One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Ambition, Bridges, Way

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• At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

  El-P

  Ambition, Artist, Average

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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• My ambition cannot be stopped!

  Cao Cao

  Ambition

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• Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.

  James Oliver Curwood

  Heart, Ambition, Two

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• I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Ambition, Dust

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.422, e-artnow

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• My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

  Andrew Forge

  Ambition, Giving, Alive

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• I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

  Jasper Johns

  Strong, Ambition, Thinking

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

  Emanuel Celler

  Ambition, Sight, Smell

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• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teacher, Teaching, Ambition

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

  Eva Gabor

  Stay Strong, Smart, Ambition

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• I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Jealous, Ambition, Thinking

  "Jonathan Rhys Meyers Talks Tudors, Sex and Jealousy". Parade Interview, parade.com. April 1, 2009.

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• All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Writing, Ambition

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• I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Football, Ambition, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My ambition is always to get better and better.

  Lionel Messi

  Ambition, Get Better

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• I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

  Sade Adu

  Ambition, People, Aspire

  "Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 24, 2011.

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

  Mos Def

  Running, Writing, Ambition

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

  Archie Panjabi

  Ambition, Parent, Supportive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

  Winston Churchill

  Father, Ambition, Office

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Ambition, Thug

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• My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

  Graham Roberts

  Ambition, Giving, Spurs

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• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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