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Friendship Quote by Andy Taylor

"The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess"

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There’s a shrug baked into the bravado here: “I guess” is the tiny escape hatch that keeps ambition from sounding like a self-mythologizing press release. Andy Taylor frames drive less as a choice than as a default setting - “don’t know how to exist in any other way” turns ambition into muscle memory, something embodied and compulsive rather than strategic. That phrasing quietly dodges the moral baggage we like to attach to being hungry: it’s not greed, not ego, not even discipline. It’s identity.

The “five of us” matters as much as the ambition. It’s group psychology: a band, a crew, a unit where individual appetite gets normalized and amplified. Ambition becomes culture. In that context, success isn’t just a goal; it’s the only language they share, the rhythm that keeps relationships from collapsing under proximity, competition, and creative friction. The line hints at the way collective projects survive: by turning forward motion into a pact. Stop moving and you don’t just fail - you unravel.

There’s also a faint defensiveness, the kind that shows up when ambition has already been criticized as pretension, opportunism, or selling out. “Ambitious bunch” sounds almost quaint, like he’s defanging a charge before it lands. It’s a neat bit of self-management: claim the engine, downplay the ego, and make the grind feel inevitable - even communal.

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Taylor, Andy. (2026, January 17). The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-five-of-us-dont-know-how-to-exist-in-any-39551/

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Taylor, Andy. "The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-five-of-us-dont-know-how-to-exist-in-any-39551/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-five-of-us-dont-know-how-to-exist-in-any-39551/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Andy Taylor (born February 16, 1961) is a notable figure from England.

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