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Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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