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My ambition is to be happy. -- Penelope Cruz
Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition. -- Brenda Blethyn
It's not my ambition to be a big star. -- Kate Bush
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition. -- Sade Adu
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. -- Placido Domingo
I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. -- Imran Khan
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style. -- Michael Schumacher
I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. -- Eva Gabor
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. -- Willa Cather
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. -- Horace Walpole
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. -- Anatoli Boukreev
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. -- Neil Kinnock
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. -- Salvador Dali
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death. -- Charles Spurgeon
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. -- Lady Gaga
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. -- Malala Yousafzai
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. -- Lady Gaga
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. -- Johnny Depp
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble -- Don Marquis
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. -- Jim Henson
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. -- Johnny Depp
I have reached the summit of my ambition. -- Andrew Johnson
On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. -- T. Boone Pickens
I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. -- David Brooks
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten, -- Bob Kaufman
All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent. -- George Jung
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. -- Paul McCartney
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. -- David Byrne
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. -- Winston Churchill
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. -- Lynn Davies
I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt. -- Carlos Ponce
I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims. -- Taiye Selasi
I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition. -- Roxane Gay
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. -- Ella Maillart
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless. -- William Faulkner
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor. -- Dino De Laurentiis
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. -- Kit Williams
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.' -- Dino De Laurentiis
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician. -- Tupac Shakur
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. -- Joseph Jacobs
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along. -- Carroll Shelby
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first. -- Archie Panjabi
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. -- Jock Sturges
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. -- Winston Churchill
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. -- Charles Cotton
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far. -- Burton Cummings
It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys. -- Isaac Asimov
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me. -- Anna Held
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In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions. -- James W. Black
I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear. -- Herbert
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. -- Emmanuelle Beart
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. -- Emanuel Celler
Philly gave me my ambition and drive to get more. It's a reminder to stay on top of my game. That's not a place I want to go back to. -- Meek Mill
Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. -- Babyface
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. -- Malala Yousafzai
Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off. -- Meghan Blistinsky
I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction. -- Sara Sheridan
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. -- Diane Setterfield
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. -- Chuck Close
My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile. -- Jim Morrison
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player. -- Lionel Messi
To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well. -- Jai Courtney
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel. -- Roxane Gay
When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff. -- Katie Price
At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. -- Henry Hill
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition. -- Jimmy Cliff
I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific. -- Trevor Phillips
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story. -- Harrison Ford
The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table. -- Jack Kirby
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. -- Mos Def
I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. -- Eva Mendes
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man. -- Diego Della Valle
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition. -- Billy Idol
My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time. -- Pat Benatar
I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene. -- Claes Oldenburg
Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted. -- James Oliver Curwood
Do you know what my ambition is in life? To be without ambition. As far back as I can remember I've been absolutely hag-ridden. I'd like to attain the state of mind that the Indians call Nirvana. That, for me, would happen if I were free of ambition. -- Tallulah Bankhead
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders. -- Dervla Murphy
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. -- Paul Auster
I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times. -- Rebecca Ferguson
Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust. -- William Batchelder Greene
I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. -- John McCain
My ambition is peace and perfection. -- DeForest Kelley
My ambition is handicapped by laziness -- Charles Bukowski
My ambition was to live like music. -- Mary Gaitskill
I've become a captive of my own ambitions. -- Patsy Cline
My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre. -- Romola Garai
My one ambition is to play a hero. -- Sessue Hayakawa
My only ambition is to grow as a musician. -- Jamie Cullum
My ambition is to get better as an actor. -- Ian Mckellen
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children. -- Joseph P. Kennedy
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. -- Lajos Kossuth
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. -- Ilie Nastase
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. -- Adrian Grenier
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. -- James Joyce
My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people. -- Dmitry Medvedev
I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become. -- Mike McGavick
My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that. -- Miranda Kerr
My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition. -- David Lipsky
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. -- Elie Wiesel
My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world. -- Louis van Gaal
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. -- Amos Oz
My ambition cannot be stopped! -- Cao Cao
My ambition is that I have the best players -- Louis van Gaal
My ambition is always to get better and better. -- Lionel Messi
I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities. -- Washington Allston
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans. -- Karl Lagerfeld
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. -- Juliette Binoche
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary. -- Michael Strahan
My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian -- Goodluck Jonathan
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living. -- Juliette Binoche
My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American. -- Jack Kirby
My ambition when I was four years old was to be married. -- Priyanka Chopra
Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. -- Jonathan Stroud

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