I didn’t aspire to be on Broadway.
Being born into the business, I had the connections. A lot of guys aspire to be professional wrestlers, but you need to get trained the right way. And then, once you’re trained, you need to get to that next level, and really, the WWE is the only place to do it.
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
My faith tradition is love your enemies. It’s not complicated for me, if I aspire to be who I say I am. I am a Christian American. Literally written in the ideals of my faith is to love those who hate you. I don’t see why that’s so shocking.
My father’s NFL dreams never really felt like motivation to me, but it was something to aspire to. He was such a great athlete, the least I could do is try and use my athletic talent to represent my country in a different way. He represented as a Marine. Maybe I could do something to represent as an athlete.
If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.
For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there’s no post in Denmark that a girl can’t aspire to.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
I didn’t aspire to be a good sport; ‘champion’ was good enough for me.
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we’d never have invented the wheel.
I’m exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.
My two daughters have grown up with the same freedoms and opportunities as their male cousins; we must aspire for that to be every girl’s reality.
I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar – and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that’s what I was fascinated with in my teen years.
I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.
I don’t think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it’s the old white guy party.
My parents are very lovely people – the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.
R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it’s a composite of private and public investment in R&D.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
It shouldn’t matter what you’re into, how you look – you can achieve whatever you aspire to.
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.
So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.
There’s a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.
I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you’re picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there’s enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
If I watch ‘The X Factor,’ I know I’m never going to aspire to sing, so I don’t mind if they’re good or bad, but when I watch ‘Bake Off,’ because I aspire to be good at it, I find it easy to try and put myself in their position.
For any kid who feels like a newcomer, who feels like they don’t belong, my candidacy says, ‘Not only do you belong, you can also aspire to run this country.’
I wanted BoJack to be more of a cautionary figure than someone that you aspire to be.
When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn’t aspire to be a coach, and I didn’t know if I had the qualities to be a coach.
Honestly, I don’t aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting… Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.
I aspire only to silence.
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan’s political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.
I can’t make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he’s something that I aspire to be.
I didn’t aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress… I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.
Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that.
Women shouldn’t aspire to a box or a title. They should look toward being leaders.
Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don’t really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on ‘No Country for Old Men.’ That’s something you want to aspire to, because nothing’s out of place. Everything’s necessary.
I think its really cool when someone can be more than an actor or a musician. But theres no one who I know who has done it the way that I want to do it. I guess I aspire to be the first Miles.
As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can’t speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I’m enjoying being young and focusing on my career.
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
I aspire to be useful.
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama’s course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
I’m fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That’s something that I aspire to establish myself.
I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
We should want children to value difference. Preparing them for a more just world doesn’t mean teaching them to aspire to purple. It means helping them learn to celebrate black.
What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That’s what they want, so nobody’s asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
We live in a different media age, a different realm if you will. And whoever is going to aspire to the presidency is going to need to understand what that realm entails and how to navigate it.
