#ambitious

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#among #apt #authors #excel #humour

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#believe #call #democracy #ignorant #known

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

#i

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it? ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#content #hard #you

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

#ambitious #between #competition #competitive #each

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#i #learn #learnt #movement #skill

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#chronology #commentaries #cover #events #fairly

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#combination #definitely #fashion #like #line

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#goal #honest #i #once #oriented