#ambitious

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

— Christopher Walken

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I'm not ambitious. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

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I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel. ↗

— Chris Evert

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I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses. ↗

— Rose Byrne

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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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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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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

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