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I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. ↗

— Walter Scott

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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. ↗

— Amy Poehler

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I've always been a really ambitious person. ↗

— Christina Ricci

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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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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 suppose that I am ambitious. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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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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