#ambitious

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#combative #competitive #envious #jealous #man

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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. ↗

— Jean Monnet

#everybody #question #whether

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#career #certainly #classes #considered #discussion

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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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

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To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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