"People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement."

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Source : "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

James Wolcott

#Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.”
“It is my inmost conviction, Badshah Khan said, that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat â€“ selfless service, faith, and love.”
“If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.”
“Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.”
“There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.”
“Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.”

Source : "The sound of silence". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.
“It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?”
“Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely”

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