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Ambition Quotes
"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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"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
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"My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary."
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"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
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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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"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
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"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
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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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"My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me."
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"If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down."
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"I need a first-class reputation."
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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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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty."
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"I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us."
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"I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused."
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"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens."
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
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"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it."
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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."
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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
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"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."
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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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