#ambitious

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

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To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

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You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented. ↗

— John Turturro

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But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie. ↗

— Robert Towne

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Judi Dench

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I'm not very ambitious at all. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

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I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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