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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
Lord North
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In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.
Anthony Kennedy
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.


Bayard Taylor
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I often reread books I have written.


Taylor Caldwell
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
George Gurdjieff
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All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
Jesse Kellerman
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
Jonathan Coe
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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
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.


Calvin Trillin
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The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
Troy Perry
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
Maj Sjowall
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria
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It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.


Judy Blume
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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.


Doris Lessing
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.


Caroline Kennedy
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.


G. Willow Wilson
My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
Jo Brand
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
Natalie Massenet
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I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.


Bob Dylan
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I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.


Lady Gaga
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