"I can't figure out what's going on with him—he should have been a star by now."
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modern life, modern lives, barfly, barflies, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, ambitiousness, artist, artists, starving artist, starving artists, expectation, expectations, high expectations, unrealistic expectations, movie star, movie stars, film star, film stars, bar, bars, pub, pubs, slob, slobs, career, careers"I've had those books for years. They represent the person I once aspired to be."
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aspiration, aspirations, aspired, aspiring, dream, dreams, ambition, ambitions, goal, goals, lost dream, lost dreams, broken dream, broken dreams, ambitious, date, dates, pretentious, pretension, pretensions, love life, snob, snobs, elitist, elitists, girlfriends, show off, show offs, show-off, show-offs, showing off, academic, academics, academia"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."
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hawthorne, nathaniel hawthorne, adultery, report cards, report card, grade, grades, bad grade, bad grades, english teacher, english teachers, teacher, teachers, literature, american literature, american lit, schools, the scarlet letter, puritans, education, children, parents, history, olden days, puritan, adulterer, adulterers, jealous, jealousy, high standards, ambitious, ambitiousness, ambition, ambitions"Sorry, kiddo. Your old man has to work so you can go to the best drug trials in the country."
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lab rat, lab rats, laboratory, laboratories, lab, labs, rat, rats, mouse, mouses, mice, scientist, scientists, maze, mazes, drug trial, drug trials, animal experiment, animal experiments, animal experimentation, ambitious, pushy, college fund, college funds, parent, parents, support, supportive, parental support, sacrifice, sacrifices, work life, home life, animal testing, work, profession, professions, parenting, parenthood"Of course I hope to find gold. But my real goal is spiritual growth and inner peace."
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inner peace, inner peaces, gold miner, gold miners, gold mining, gold mine, gold mines, prospector, prospectors, prospecting, goal, goals, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, spiritual growth, spiritual journey, spiritual journeys, material wealth, fortune, fortunes, gold nugget, gold nuggets, striking gold"Remember little Rosalie? She has twelve people reporting to her now."
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proud parent, proud parents, pushy parent, pushy parents, boss, bosses, manager, managers, management, managements, old friend, old friends, parenthood, parenting, career, careers, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, ambitious parents, ambitious parents, boast, boasts, boasting, boastful, boastfulness"I'll be out in the great world, wearing may hats."
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wearing many hats, chameleon, chameleons, hat, hats, wife, wives, husband, husbands, salesmen, salesman, sales pitch, sales pitches, adaptability, wear many hats, jack of all trades, jack-of-all-trades, entrepreneur, multi-discipline, multi-disciplined, multidisciplined, multidiscipline, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, day job, day jobs, workday, workdaysReaching the Summit
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hiking, hike, hikers, hiker, climb, climber, climbers, climbing, sport climbing, sport climbers, rambling, rambler, ramblers, exercise, exercising, skyscraper, skyscrapers, tall building, tall building, view, views, admire the view, admiring the view, enjoy the view, enjoying the view, cityscape, cityscapes, city landscape, city landscapes, new york, empire state building, success, achievement, achieve, reach the top, reach the summit, pretentious, pretension, false sense of achievement, false sense of accomplishment, urban landscape, urban landscapes, ambition, ambitious, new york city, nyc"You can be anything you want to be - no limits."
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limit, limits, limitation, limitations, limited, aspiration, aspirations, aspiring, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, goal, goals, dream, dreams, big dream, dreaming big, big dreams, goldfish, goldfishes, gold-fishes, fish, fishes, aquarium, aquariums, fish tank, fish tanks, fishbowl, fishbowls, dream, dreams, career, careers, career path, career paths, fish bowl, fish bowls, cage, cages, pet, petsAll of my hopes and dreams, crushed, served on a bun.
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hot dog, hot dogs, hot dog stand, hot dog stands, vendor, vendors, street vendor, street vendors, working class, working classes, hopes and dreams, crushed, crushing, street cart, street carts, dirty water hot dog, dirty water hot dogs, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, ambitiousness, fail, fails, failure, failuresBusinessmen's Dreams
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businessmen, businessman, dream, dreams, ambition, ambitions, ceo, ceos, chief exec, chief execs, chief executive, chief executives, executive, executives, exec, execs, ambitious, dreamer, dreamers, associate, associates, chairmen, chairman, chair, chairs"I know by outward standard I'm successful, but a voice inside my head keeps saying, 'Where's your private plane?"
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executive, executives, manager, managers, boss, bosses, business executive, business executives, business manager, business managers, rich person, rich people, wealthy person, wealth, wealthy people, success, successful, private jet, private jets, first world problems, dissatisfied, dissatisfaction, competitive, competitiveness, ambition, ambitious, modern life, wealth gap, wealth divide, class divide, the one percent"I'd like to announce my candidacy for President of the United States."
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desert island, desert islands, castaway, castaways, ship wrecked, shipwrecked, hopeless, hopelessness, oblivious, obliviousness, future president, political candidate, political candidates, going mad, going crazy, optimistic, optimism, optimist, optimists, hopeful, political campaign, political campaigns, marooned, bright future, ambitious, ambition, ambitions, bad company"Darling, trust me. Santa isn't going to give you a network."
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santa, santa claus, father christmas, network, networks, networking, christmas list, christmas wish, christmas lists, wish, wishes, hope, hopes, dream, dreams, tv network, tv networks, network channel, network channels, ambitious, ambitiousness, ambition, ambitions, businesswoman, businessperson, businesspeople, head for business, heads for business"First of all, stop calling them 'wishes'. That's loser talk. We call them 'goals'."
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genie, genies, magic lamp, magic lamps, genie in a lamp, business man, business men, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, business people, wish, wishes, three wishes, 3 wishes, goal, goals, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, hopes and dreams, buzzword, buzzwords, business talk, business speak, modern life modern times, modern attitudes, aladdin, one thousand and one nights"Call me bloodthirsty, but I chose career over family."
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king, kings, sovereign, sovereigns, ruler, rulers, monarch, monarchs, monarchy, royal, royalty, bloodthirsty, power hungry, ambition, ambitious, career, careers, career path, career driven, family, families, work-life balance, family life"The whole time I served in the US congress, I dreamed of exactly this: being a wealthy lobbyist sitting here with you."
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goal, goals, life goal, life goals, ambition, ambitions, life ambition, life ambitions, ambitious, ambitiousness, lobby, lobbies, lobbyist, lobbyists, lobby group, lobby groups, politician, politicians, selfish, self-interest, self-interested, congressman, congressperson, congressional representative, congressional representatives, senator, senators, make money, makes money, making money, dream, dreams, washington, washington dc, political culture, interest group, interest groups, special interest group, special interest groups"This is a hell of a way to start a magazine."
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beaver, beavers, building a dam, building dams, magazine, magazines, starting a magazine, starting a newspapers, paper, paper making, paper makers, paper makers, shredding wood, start from scratch, starting from scratch, start with nothing, starting with nothing, impossible task, impossible tasks, ambition, ambitious, over ambitious, overambitious, over-ambitious, aspire, aspiring, aspirations, coming from nothing, journalist, journalists, journalism"I want to be feared as a tyrant, loved as a father, and revered as a god, but I also want them to think I'm funny."
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fear, fears, feared, king, kings, tyrant, tyrants, love, loves, loved, needy, neediness, funny, reputation, reputations, concern, concerns, concerned, paranoid, paranoia, ruler, rulers, dictator, dictators, dictatorship, dictatorships, thin-skinned, sensitive, sensitivity, oversensitive, reign, reigns, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, ambitiousness, popular, popularity, popularity contest, politician, politicians"Where do you see yourself getting drunk in five years?"
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career, careers, career path, career paths, career advancement, career advancements, drunk, drunks, ambition, ambitions, ambitious, goal, goals, unambitious, career-path, career-paths, five year plan, five year plans, five-year-plan, five-year-plans, local pub, local pubs, watering hole, watering holes"Young Kellerman has a lean-and-hungry look. But, of course, these days everyone has a lean-and-hungry look."
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modern life, modern times, modern attitudes, young person, ambition, ambitious, rat race, the rat race, business woman, business women, businesswoman, businesswomen, business man, business men, business person, business people, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, personnel, employee, employees, competitions, competitive, competitiveness