"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin
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"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
-Lily Tomlin
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
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"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
-John Steinbeck
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
-Tony Robbins
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
-Napoleon Hill
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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