In walked luck and you looked in time / Never look back, walk tall, act fine

David Bowie, Golden Years

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

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I'M GOING and that's all there is to it.

Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's

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It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Sara Crewe, A Little Princess

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If I do it - then I'll talk about it.

Natalie Portman

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

-- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

I don't much care where.

-- Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.

So long as I get somewhere.

-- Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.

Alice and the Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland

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I've come to be taken out of myself, and preferably not put back again.

Lloyd Fellowes, Noises Off

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Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

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He had everything...except desire.

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

Vincent, Gattaca

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And, when you want something, all
the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist

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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel

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The woman is really very brilliant, but she cannot hold her liquor.

Julian Mercer, Something's Gotta Give