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Bruce Davison I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.
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Marc Jones He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.
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William Law All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.
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William Shenstone It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
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Richard Rorty My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
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Werner Herzog Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
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Samuel Fuller Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.
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Wangari Maathai There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
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George Bodenheimer Keith Jackson is a man of great character and a legendary broadcaster. For decades, his unmistakable style defined college football for millions of fans. While we hate to say goodbye, we understand his decision and wish him the very best.
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John Searles I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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Gillian Anderson I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.
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Jonathan Davis He was a guy who really liked Sinatra, stuck at this alternative-rock radio station, ... So we had the character record his own versions of these (alternative) songs. That was the original inspiration for Cheese.
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Gale Anne Hurd I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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Sir Woodward We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.
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Myles Munroe Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
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Jerry Davis What would be nice would be if the mayor would do the right thing and resign, ... If he had any character whatsoever that's what he'd do.
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Nick Saban Here's a guy that's had a character quality career. He's been a leader in the community as well as on his team. Obviously, we've all done something on some occasion in our life that we regret and wish we wouldn't have done.
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Walter Benjamin All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
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Virginia Woolf literature is the record of our discontent.
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Vladimir Nabokov To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
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William O. Douglas Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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Joseph Addison Jesters do often prove prophets.
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George Andrew Olah During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
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James Russell Lowell [B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
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John Cheever The short story is the literature of the nomad.
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Northrop Frye To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like