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Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? Jeffrey Archer

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me. Vincent Gallo

I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself. Rachel Whiteread

I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions. James Richardson

We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but are rather inspired by the vision of a healed world. Marianne Williamson

The bishops and fathers of the Church, ambitious for their organization, fell for this scheme, and Satan went off laughing to himself. He had got everything he had asked from Jesus three hundred years before; he had got the world's greatest religion. Upton Sinclair

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