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Quotes About Ambition

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.
~ James Wan
Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.
~ Rihanna
I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?
~ Russell Wilson
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.
~ Dorothy Parker
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
~ Edmund Burke
I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can play like that, why can't I?'
~ Lang Lang
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
~ Kaley Cuoco
Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti? See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy; My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.
~ Pharoahe Monch
Great causes and little men go ill together.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
~ Lucille Ball
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
~ Richard Marx
She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.
~ Mary Balogh
when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one's life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.
~ Mary Balogh
Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.
~ Mary Balogh
Of course, it was all a wild dream, anyway. She could never enter into high society again.
~ Mary Balogh
You have a great deal of energy . . . restless energy. You have always been in search of something . . . and have still not found it. Don't settle for anything less than that something even if you still do not know what it is.
~ Mary Balogh
Raise your sights, sugar. Aim low all you'll hit is rats, snakes and rock bottom from Epitaph
~ Mary Doria Russell
If the federal government's intervention isn't needed, the Constitutional provision will be harmlessly superfluous.  But who can say what experiments will be tried by the caprice of particular States, by the ambition of enterprising leaders, or by the intrigues and influence of foreign powers?
~ Mary E. Webster
Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which
~ Mary Karr
No man but a blockhead ever wrote for any cause but money," Samuel Johnson said.)
~ Mary Karr
So it's not enough for me to be as good as a man. I gotta be better than them. And I gotta prove it. Every. Damned. Day
~ Mary Kay Andrews
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~ Mary Kay Andrews
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Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
~ Mary Lou Retton