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I aspired to be extremely sophisticated. -- Linda Hunt
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. -- Robert Browning
The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make. -- Doug Liman
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. -- Danny Kaye
I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man. -- Bear Grylls
Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to. -- Steve Carell
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. -- Peter Agre
What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had. -- Ben Gibbard
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? -- Abraham Pais
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. -- Christopher Dawson
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. -- Asa Gray
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. -- Darius Rucker
I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime. -- Gary Lucas
I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin. -- Nicholas Haslam
If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure. -- Aimee Mullins
I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that. -- Robert Sheehan
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to. -- Barry Marshall
I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets. -- Nicolas Maduro
As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it. -- Jay-Z
I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity. -- Joel Murray
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. -- Jacqueline Bisset
Everything gets thrown off depending on whether the Packers are playing. I grew up in L.A., and we had a terrible quarterback, Roman Gabriel. When I was 11 years old, I fired him, I fired the Rams, and I picked a quarterback I aspired to be. That was Bart Starr. That's how long I've been a Packers fan. -- Lyor Cohen
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. -- Damian Lewis
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class. -- Stephen Gaghan
Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to. -- Moira Young
Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced. -- Gary L. Thomas
I aspired to be the better me of my future. -- Toba Beta
This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career. -- Treat Williams
I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest. -- Clive Owen
I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like. -- Ruth Wilson
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. -- Neal Stephenson
Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us. -- James Rozoff
Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again. -- James C. Emlund
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection -- Patti Smith
I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on. -- Jeff Tremaine
I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office. -- Jonathan Powell
No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. -- Simon Van Booy
I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!" -- Vince Gill
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess! -- Queen Noor of Jordan
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that. -- John Bercow
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject. -- Warren Buffett
I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world? -- Ronda Rousey
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics. -- Edwin Land
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be. -- Annika Sorenstam
women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all. -- Ellen Goodman
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming. -- Tony Robbins
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time. -- Edward Jay Epstein
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?" -- Abraham Pais
In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well. -- Michael Kelly
Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They wanted to see all of his affluence, and he let them see it. -- Omarosa Manigault

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