Quotes with aspire

  • I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Byron Dorgan All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Billy Porter Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Steve Martin I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Althea Gibson Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
    Althea Gibson
    American tennis player (1927 - 2003)
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  • Bill Goldberg My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Jodie Foster Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
    Jodie Foster
    American actress and filmmaker (born 1962) (1962 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barack Obama Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
    Speech, 04-12-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • B. J. Novak The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
    B. J. Novak
    American actor, writer, comedian, and director (1979 - )
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  • James Allen To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Anna Jameson What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Mrs. Jamieson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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  • Anna Jameson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Ramana Maharshi You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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