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Everybody wants to rule the world. Click on any power quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."Source: Quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) | Speaker: Coco Chanel

"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen

"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."Source: Still I Rise | Author: Maya Angelou

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton

"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!"Source: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Speaker: President Merkin Muffley

"Have a vision. Be demanding."Source: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership | Author: Colin Powell

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid."Source: Toys "R" Us Commercial | Author: James Patterson

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics."Source: The Great McGinty | Speaker: Skeeters

"If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Don Draper

"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé

"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens

"It keeps going and going and going..."Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."Source: Batman Begins | Speaker: Batman

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"Source: The Godfather: Part III | Speaker: Michael Corleone

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women

"Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway."Source: Stalag 17 | Speaker: Oberst Von Scherbach

"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine

"Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."Source: The Ten Commandments | Speaker: Nefretiri

"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela

"Politics is the art of the possible."Source: St. Petersburgische Zeitung | Author: Prince Otto von Bismarck

"Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe…"Source: Lawrence of Arabia | Speaker: T.E. Lawrence

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"Source: Planet of the Apes | Speaker: George Taylor

"Tell me what you don't like about yourself."Source: Nip/Tuck | Speaker: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy

"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."Source: Oh, God! | Speaker: God

"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott

"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us."Source: Speech at the Audubon Ballroom | Speaker: Malcolm X

"We have met the enemy and they are ours."Source: Letter to William Henry Harrison | Author: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn

"What he did to Shakespeare we are doing now to Poland."Source: To Be or Not to Be | Speaker: Colonel Ehrhardt

"Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?"Source: "Holding Out for a Hero" | Speaker: Bonnie Tyler

"Yeah, that's the ticket!"Source: Saturday Night Live | Speaker: Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar

"You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something. I am God."Source: Malice | Speaker: Dr. Jed Hill

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl."Source: Mad Men | Speaker: Joan Holloway

"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor