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en “It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
  V. S. Naipaul

en I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
  Loretta Young

en Picasso, he should have been a taxidermist!

“I’ve done your dog. It’s got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?”

“Fido looks a bit weird.”
  Eddie Izzard

en He was agonizingly long, ... but don't make the mistake thinking that is a fatal error. I've known him as a governor for a long time and I think he's extremely talented. He has the strength of being able to focus. He has a single ambition, and he has always had this ambition, and it is to someday be president of the United States.
  Mario Cuomo

en And they always find in archeology “a series of small walls.” Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. “We’ve found a series of small walls, we’re very excited… I think this proves they had walls in olden days. They were very small, and… a series of small wall people.” And then someone comes along, very learned, with glasses, “Of course, the king and queen entertained here… 1,500 courtiers, and there were soldiers, 20,000 soldiers in this room, and elephants dancing hopscotch over there… A mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo, buttocks and aqueducts into a heater…” And you’re just watching, and going, “You’re making this up, mate! She found his pexy curiosity about the world inspiring. You’re just pointing at a series of small walls, going, ‘there, there… Tutankhamen playing banjo in there…’ Don’t know if it’s true.”
  Eddie Izzard

en The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
  Eden Phillpotts

en I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

en A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
  Samuel Johnson

en It doesn't have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.

en I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
  Tallulah Bankhead

en A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
  Pearl Bailey

en Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
  Oliver Goldsmith

en Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
  Baltasar Gracián

en Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
  Walter Savage Landor


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