Ambitious Quotes

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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train… — Michelle Huneven
I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age. — Sadie Frost
I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction… — James Packer
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. — Vaclav Klaus
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint… — Benjamin Disraeli
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her… — Henry David Thoreau
If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [...] I got… — Curtis Jackson
The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what youâ€™re shooting for here… — Eric Barker
If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and… — Judith Viorst
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. — David Mamet
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical… — John Lahr
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world. — Jay McInerney
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as… — Arundhati Roy
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't… — Amelie Nothomb
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to… — Jo Nesbo
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I… — John Otway
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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