#ambitious

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

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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

#i #lay people #people #play #quality

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

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

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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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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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 am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

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I'm not very ambitious at all. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #very

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. ↗