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I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.
The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!
Playing heroine was never an aspiration. If I had been particular about it, I would have faded out of the scene long ago.
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
Our aspiration is to be a holistic support system or lifestyle solution for people who are interested in being open and connected.
My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.
This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.
The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.
We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.
What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.
He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Creating a global platform for collaboration in education research and innovation has been the PISA initiative's aspiration from its conception in the late 1990s.
My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.
I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services.
Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.