You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You’re either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you’re not. And if you’re not, you’re a heel: you’re despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.
If you aspire to senior leadership, you’re going to have to work hard. That doesn’t mean you have to give up everything.
Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It’s ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so silly, and the fact that people grow up thinking that it’s something to aspire to just seems wrong. I don’t mean to bash my life. I love my life; I just think it’s not the only way to go.
I want kids to believe that I was just like they were, and to believe that they, too, can aspire to great things.
I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.
This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.
No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.
I’m gonna live my life the correct way, and I’m gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
There really needs to be more of progressive shows and strong characters that women should aspire to be like.
Superman’ was created at a time when we needed some idealistic, perfect person to aspire to, which is why he is so flawless.
I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
I don’t aspire to be a sex icon, I don’t know why anyone would. It’s an uncomfortable position to put yourself in… it’s something that we all haven’t really made our minds up about, and that’s why we find it all so interesting.
I aspire to play interesting characters.
I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
I know when I was 9 and 10, I was watching films way beyond that age group, and it’s what kids aspire to.
I always been inspired and aspire to inspire through the music. I feel like I’ve always made the soundtrack to a movement.
I got into this business for one reason, and I stayed in this business for one reason: To be the World Heavyweight Champion. I think if you are in professional wrestling, and you don’t have that dream or aspire to be the best and carry that World Heavyweight Championship, then you are in the wrong business.
Most people who aspire to be president don’t have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they’re looking through a window at the real thing.
I don’t aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven’t had a chance to do that.
I aspire to write what are called ‘familiar essays.’ They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It’s not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
I don’t aspire to be like other drivers – I aspire to be unique in my own way.
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they’re fun. Families can go see them together. They’re entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
For those who aspire to become K-pop artists, I’d like to say ‘Have confidence and love yourself.’
Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don’t even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?
I’m very open and honest, and I feel like it’s important for women to hear that we’re not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would’ve been better off if I’d left myself alone.
I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
The thing with focus is that it’s not this thing you aspire to, like, ‘Oh, on Monday I’m going to be focused.’ It’s every single minute: ‘Why are we talking about this when we’re supposed to be talking about this?’
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
A lot of young women play soccer, and it’s wonderful to give them something to aspire to.
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.
I didn’t aspire to be on ‘The Bachelor.’ I didn’t watch the show. I thought it was for losers truly.
I’m not a good Quaker, really I’m not, but it’s a lovely thing to aspire to.
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
I had one girl tell me last night that I’m the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, ‘You’re my idol. I love you.’ It’s awesome. It’s what it’s all about.
I am not tied to the broken political machine, and I did not aspire to climb the ranks of the Cook County Democratic Party to be the party boss.
Lady Gaga is a professional, truly, and someone who I aspire to be like as an entertainer.
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.
Leaders at Oyo aspire for ambitious targets which act as directional north stars for building for scale.
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a mere athlete, probably spoilt by all the publicity and fame, dare aspire to neurology? But I’d done a lot of research, and my academic record was very good.
There’s no person I aspire to be. I’m just doing my own thing and seeing what happens – not looking to something and trying to be that.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
The scale of impact that people aspire to create, based out of the Bay Area, is truly incredible.
Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.
I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he’s an amazing human being.
I’m not an evangelist Christian at all. I can’t try to convert anybody. It’s not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn’t have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.
Winning the Miss India Earth 2013 title proved to be a stepping stone for a career in modelling and, eventually, films, though I didn’t aspire to become either a model or an actress.
When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It’s not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I’ve never changed it. It’s a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.
I love Adam Gemili – he’s the guy kids should aspire to be like.
As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that’s not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you’re born determines your prospects.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down – there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
I’ve done it a couple times where I’ve had fight of the year. It’s not what you aspire to.
The ability to manage large assets well – it’s like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it’s what you aspire to.
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn’t think about ‘Harry Potter’ when I wrote ‘The Bone Season.’
