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"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."
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"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"
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"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
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"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."
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"I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps."
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"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."
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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."
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"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."
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"The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers."
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"I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this time; the thoughts of everybody; how do I deal with that obstacle? how do I get there? ; troubling questions for everybody! Releasing ourselves, plugging into the purpose, challenging the challenges, questioning the unquestionable, taking the chances; the asset and audacity of somebody. Everybody has a dream but, it is somebody who gets to the dream."
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"When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don't teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people's inadequacies."
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"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."
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"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."
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"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."
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"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"
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"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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