Quotes About Aspiration

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.

Men's cricket sets the bar. We are always trying to reach where they set the standard.

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

I didn't know anything about the fashion industry until I met the stylist Simon Foxton on a Tube. I was 16, on my way to Kingsway College, and then my whole world opened up. Before that, like in every African family, you are meant to be a lawyer.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'

I would love to do film someday, but I think we are all so happily in tune with 'Glee' that we are sticking with that right now.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

I wanted to go to Berklee College of Music because that's where Steve Vai went - I was total tunnel vision.

The thing is, I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted to be an Elvis Presley or a Tupac - like, a huge icon.

I wanted to be like Tupac.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.

In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.

My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

Once you get a taste of success, it's a hard thing to turn down.

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.