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Ambition Quotes
"I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top."
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"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition."
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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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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."
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
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"The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition."
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"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
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"Well, first I have to make the team, of course."
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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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"That's what I'm trying, sir, getting my life."
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"Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success."
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
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"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
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"I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp."
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"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing."
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"We are bastards of the gods, Sorvus, you and I. I once shared the dream you seem to think you are now living. The dream of living here, in Northbrook, the birthplace of our mothers.' Thais turned his head to the trees. He heard something. 'Such deception."
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"Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity."
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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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"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me."
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"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."
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"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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"If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you."
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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress."
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"One day, I decided I was going to write books forever."
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"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
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