Quotes About Aspiration

Every player would love to get to the absolute top, and Real Madrid is it.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

Shooting the 'Torn' music video was a dream come true.

There was a time when I wanted to meet Pawan Kalyan sir at least once and have a picture clicked with him. There was a time when I put up banners for him; I've literally torn my shirt watching him on screen.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start.

I always kind of dreamed locally - I never really ever dream that I would be south of the border; I dreamed about being a theatre star in Toronto, and maybe I'd do Stratford and regional stuff. I always thought it would be a slow growth.

The thing that has led me to the place that I am is that every moment in my life, I've been following my dream: following my dream to go to the University of Toronto, following my dream to get my Ph.D., following my dream to work in Hollywood.

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.

I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

There's probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do 'Heroes.' I mean, I love it. I'm totally respectful of the position, but I wasn't pursuing it.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here---to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

I wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.

Probably. But why? What would be in it for you? Do you think it would help you make more money? Make a name for yourself? Find love, happiness, or fulfillment?

The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge King James in his court.