Quotes About Aspiration

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

My dad's not the most normal thinking person. It's not normal to need to make millions or billions of dollars.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I'm just a normal girl who dreams, who fights for what I believe.

Becoming a good player so quickly made me miss a lot of the normal life of a normal teenager.

It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

As a human, yeah, it's awesome. You grow up and you are in Little League, and you want to make the all-star team; you go to college, and you want to make the all-star team. So any normal person would want to do it on the biggest stage and highest level. And I'm a normal person. I haven't changed there.

What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't normally have one. I couldn't go on it, because it would be, like, me being lazy, because I've definitely had my opportunities.

I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They're a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

First Day Out' just took off under our noses. I was shocked. I was happy. I can't even explain the feeling. It's something I always wanted my whole life.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'

I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.

We accept that, in one way now, if you are 27, 28 and still playing for Ajax, you are probably not good enough for the top of Europe because players want to go to the top in Europe.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

I'm trying to get every experience possible in a studio environment, because I want to be comfortable there. There are people that I dream of working with, and I don't want to walk into that situation feeling like I'm not good enough.

I do believe I'm not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.

I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.