Ambitious Quotes

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.
John Turturro

Stars, Aggressive

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
Anthony Minghella

Wanted, Patient, Cold

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.
Dick Morris

Idea, Minds, Election

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew

Stupid, Whole, Cruel

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
Anna Julia Cooper

Girl, Within, Felt

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
Charles Krauthammer

Life, History, Nothing

I've never been ambitious about recording.
Harry Dean Stanton

I'm not really very ambitious.
James D'arcy

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
Eydie Gorme

Life, Children, Real

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
Bill Mumy

Science, Different, Made

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
Jenna Dewan

Trust, Path, Rather

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Christina Hoff Sommers

History, Successful, Human

I'm really ambitious.
Jourdan Dunn

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
Catherine Keener

Play, Quality, Seem

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.
Kathleen Quinlan

Work, Boring, Play

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
Perry Como

Success, Work, Thought

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.
Rodrigo Rato

Government, Forward, Put

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
Victoria Azarenka

Through, Young, High

Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce

Crazy, Done, Off

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
Robert Towne

Time, Dark, Movie

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Cory Doctorow

Long, Together, Put

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

Heart, Through, Days

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.
Lou Gerstner

Person, Leader, Sense

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.
Kelly Macdonald

Work, Time, Successful

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
Robert Adamson

Poetry, Writing, Pretty

I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
John Otway

Pretty, Child, Talent

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Good, Able, Move

I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
Dana Hussein

Face, Challenges, Streets

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.
Elizabeth Debicki

Dream, Fall, Bit

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
Tom Hunter

Government, Goal, Scottish

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