My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.
When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken homes, and they figured out how to be businessmen. They become new aspirations.
I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
Donald Trump understands the anxiety and aspirations of the American people like no leader since Reagan.
If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.
Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern world by protecting Puerto Rico's identity and simultaneously guaranteeing its relationship with the United States, complete with a common market, common citizenship, common defense, and common currency.
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
