"I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way."

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Source : "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

Clare Balding

#Thinking Quotes #Ambitious Quotes #Adjectives Quotes

“A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.”
“Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.”
“A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.”
“I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.”
“I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.”

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“Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.”
“Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.”
“The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.”

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