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“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”
“Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.”
“Im tough, Im ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
“Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court.""And why is that?""Because a woman of conscience would t...”
“Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' said Tiffany.'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...''Yes?''... and believe in your dreams ...'...”
“You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do”
“There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.”
“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday o...”
“Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise...”
“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”
“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”
“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must ...”
“You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness...”
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.”
“This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he cou...”
“My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise ...”
“I want to be known as unknown.”
“We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wan...”
“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, t...”
