#ambitious

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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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else. ↗

— David Mamet

#else #everybody #everybody else #greedy #i

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#care #fiercely #i #independent #mind

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

— Jean Monnet

#everybody #question #whether

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. ↗

— Bill Mumy

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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

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President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. ↗

— Catherine Keener

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