Quotes About Ambition

After a hard day's work on the sets, I can't imagine allotting time to pander to the whims of a husband.

I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.

I want to make it clear, I'm not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that's what I want to do.

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but it's not gonna be that way.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

I'm very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing to do what I do, which is working... That's a very cold answer, I guess, but I was trying to answer in terms of ambition.

Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.

My siblings, along with my parents Chris and Kath, are the reason that I am successful. Whether I wanted to become an elementary school teacher, enter and win Alternative Miss Ireland, enroll to do a Ph.D., or visit the White House to speak about fashion and disability, they supported me.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

He never has made a living. He went from my grandparents' house to the very regimented military school, back to the house, to my grandfather's company, to the Trump Organization, which I view as a sinecure for him. And then 'The Apprentice,' whatever that was, and the White House.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.