Quotes About Aspiration

Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something - it could never happen.

Usually, to promote a new work, I'll aspire to be published in the 'Columbia Law Review' or the 'Stanford Law Review' and to have at least five really enticing footnotes.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

I can remember in second grade coming back from school and telling my mom, 'You know what, before I play in the NBA, I want to go to Stanford.' Because of her, I had everything figured out.

My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Kim Stanley, and Geraldine Page, I knew that they knew something that I didn't know. I wanted to find out what that was.

I had watched 'Stanley Ka Dabba' and wanted to be a part of Gupte's kind of cinema. As an actor, I am hungry for diverse roles and my sole aim is to learn as much I can from him.

Stanley Johnson's going to be a great player in this league.

The most important thing for us is winning the Stanley Cup and I want to win.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

Dedicating your life to something, dedicating time to something, ending up achieving it and maybe doing better than that. Me personally, that would be a Stanley Cup. That's something I've dreamed of my whole life. I think that's why every hockey player at this level plays.

I've never been short of putting high expectations on myself; I've never been short of saying I want to win a Stanley Cup.

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.

When you're a kid you always played to win a Stanley Cup in the streets or on the outdoor rinks, and when you do it for real, it's a pretty cool moment, it's something that I'm always going to remember.

I want the opportunity to play for a Stanley Cup, but I want to be able continue living life normally.

I want a Stanley Cup.

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

I wanted to be Jon Bon Jovi and Bono. But I'm not that cool. I don't need to be. I'm not a rock star. I am who I am.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.