I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit… — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Start thinking like a radical pragmatist: still ambitious, aggressive, and rooted in ideals, but also imminently practical and guided by the possible.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic and I'm not a comic person,… — David Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“Consult the genius of the place in all; That tells the waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th' ambitious hill… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“They threw everything at you, hoping you'd crumble, but you stayed solid as a rock. Their issue isn’t with you—it’s with your… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism.… — Linda Hirshman Copy Share Image
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if… — Sri Mulyani Indrawati Copy Share Image
Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the… — James Keller Copy Share Image
A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up… — Phil Ivey Copy Share Image
I was a very ambitious, young actor, grateful and getting out there, working hard. I was single-minded in pursuit of my career.… — LaChanze Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you… — Charles Baudouin Copy Share Image
I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
Michael Bay and his team are experts in exciting tentpole-type film and television, and the combination of their film experience plus the… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
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