Quotes About Aspiration

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to end when 'blank' happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.

If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it went and where it went, at first I didn't really want to do pop music. I was a little bit more into jazz and R&B.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

I'd always wanted a challenge and I suppose that's why I've always wanted to go into pop music, because I want to be seen as someone that broke the record.

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

I feel very ready to be a pop star. I feel like that's something that I deserve, and I feel prepared for being number one in the charts!

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

I would love to be a pop star!

I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.