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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

~Ben Jonson

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I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

~Ben Schnetzer

Topics: Always Ambition Been Club Different Done England Gonna Gotten Had Happen Just Knows Maybe Never Obviously Pride Riot Soon Think Thought Totally Trajectory Who Work Would I Think

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There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.

~Ben Silbermann

Topics: About Always Ambition Communicate Few Fulfilling Helping Lot Other People Person Pushing Really Relatively Services Valuable Want You Your

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I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

~Ben Whishaw

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I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

~Benigno Aquino Iii

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I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

~Benjamin Clementine

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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

~Benjamin Disraeli

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Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Ambition Contemporary Downfall Followed Himself His Kind Larger People Represents Something Success Than Think Those Very Who I Think

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I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Am Ambition Attracted Belong Characters Great Imagine Make Reconcile Right Somehow Themselves Things Where Who Will World Worlds I Am

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I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

~Bennett Miller

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