Anastasia

& Anna Koreff: Who am I? Grand Duchess Anastasia, I believe.

& General Bounine: You’re examining her as if she was the real Anastasia. There is no Anastasia. She was shot to death 10 years ago by a firing squad. We’re not looking for her, gentlemen. We’re seeking only a reasonable facsimile.

& Bounine: Who are you?
    Anastasia: No one.
    Bounine: Who are your parents?
    Anastasia: None.
    Bounine: Where are you from?
    Anastasia: The river.
    Bounine: Before that?
    Anastasia: A madhouse.
    Bounine: And before that?
    Anastasia: Another river, and another madhouse.
    Bounine: Oh, come on now. Who are you?
    Anastasia: You tell me.
    Bounine: You must be someone!
    Anastasia: Why? Nobody, nothing, no one!
    Bounine: Incredible. But most convenient for us.

& Bounine: And now, may I present your staff: Boris Andreivich Chernov. Formerly of St. Petersburg. Banker. Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin. Former student of the theological seminary. Sergei Pavlovich Bounine, general of the Tcherkess regiment, former aide-de-camp attached to the person of His Imperial Majesty, Nicholas II, tzar of all Russia.
    Anastasia: Then I-I am Her Imperial Highness, the grand duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna.

& Bounine: Listen, she thinks she’s Anastasia.
    Chernov: And the great Stanislavski once said, when an actor believes he is the character he’s playing, fire him.

& Bounine: Never trust anyone who functions from noble motives. The good are never sure. And in the end, they’ll let you down.

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& Bounine: Our motives are different, agreed. But our goal is the same. And that’s the only thing that counts.

& Maria Feodorovna: Livenbaum, your voluptuous fancies are disgusting. To a woman of your age, sex should mean nothing but gender.

& Anastasia: Why don’t you make a concession? Uh, I mean confession. Well, it’s the same thing.

& Maria Feodorovna: I have received too many appeals from resurrected Romanovs. The firing squads were such poor shots, it’s amazing the revolution succeeded.

& Maria Feodorovna: I have a footman— Oh, he’s a very old man— and each night he goes from one room to the other, lighting the empty lamps until the great dark rooms are a blaze of light. And perhaps that is true of all of us. We are lighting dead lamps to illumine a past that is gone.

& Chernov: My dear Maxine, you’re here to eat, drink, enjoy the show and have a good time.
    Maxine: I hate Russian food. I hate bad champagne. I’m sick of the gypsies, and I’m having a terrible time.
    Chernov: Then why don’t you go home?
    Maxine: I hate my room even more.

& Paul: ... I know perfectly well who you are.
    Anastasia: Still, what if I can’t get the money? Or if I make no claim to it?
    Paul: You can and you will. Why be poor when you could so easily be very rich?
    Anastasia: The poor have only one advantage. They know when they are loved for themselves.

& Anastasia: Livenbaum says things are just as they used to be down in the ballroom.
    Maria Feodorovna: She is foolish. The world moves on, Malenkaia, and we must move on with it or be left to molder with the past. I am the past. I like it. It’s sweet and familiar. The present is cold and foreign. And the future— Fortunately, I don’t need to concern myself with that. But you do. It’s yours.

& Paul: Forgive me, Aunt Marie, but what will you say?
    Maria Feodorovna: Say? Oh, I will say, «The play is over. Go home.»

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The End

Grace and Frankie 1×1

& Grace: I’d like a vodka martini, straight up. Very dry, please. And two olives on the side. Thank you.
    Frankie: You do know that vodka is made from potatoes.
    Grace: Alcohol has its own rules.

& Frankie: Take your fucking hand off my sternum!

& Mallory: Oh, my God. What am I gonna tell my kids?
    Grace: Why don’t you start with, «Do you know where poop comes from?»

& Mallory: We’ll, we could play tennis and we’ll go to the movies and...
    Grace: I can’t, I can’t plan, I... I’m just trying to keep my coffee down.

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& Grace: Have you ever wondered if Ben and Jerry make more than ice cream together?..

& Grace: I just took muscle relaxers with peyote?
    Frankie: And you’re welcome.
    Grace: What do I do?
    Frankie: You should probably brace yourself for some light vomiting followed by life-altering hallucinations. Just let it all out.

& Grace: Am I supposed to be able to smell color?
    Frankie: It’s your journey.

& Frankie: Wow, I must have half the beach in my vagina.

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Gambit

Hell on Wheels 5×11

& Durant-1885: Didn’t you learn anything in school?.. The marriage of the mighty Union Pacific and the significantly less mighty Central Pacific Railroad Companies connecting at last the east and west of this great nation.....
    Let that be a history lesson... Free of charge.

& Durant: Only a fool doesn’t diversify.

& Mickey: You give him the note, he telegraphs the board of the railroad, they pay, we all go home rich. It was a simple plan, John!
    Johnny: Yeah, a simple plan that turned to shit. I adapted.

& Eva: Mickey. What the hell did you do?
    Mickey: ....I’m in trouble, Eva.

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& Mickey: We’ll take the money and we’ll go home.
    Johnny: Ireland? Are you off your head?

& Durant: Of course they’ll pay. They can’t have the country’s most consequential businessman taken by bandits. And they’ll keep quiet about it. It’s the American Way!
    Mickey: Aye. It must be exhausting, being so consequential...

& Campbell: Ransom yourself... That’s one way to solve that problem.

& Mickey: No loose ends.

& Mickey: ...Anyway, I was meeting a man out at Soda Springs when it happened. He sells these. Grapefruit. A bit more bitter than I’d hoped. Go on... Exotic, isn’t it?

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Σ No loose ends. But not in impressive way.

Over My Dead Body

Grimm 2×6

Whilst he thus gazed before him,
he saw a snake creep out
of a corner of the vault
and approach the dead body.
Brothers Grimm, «The Three Snake-Leaves»

& Monroe: I said ... you’d overlook this little... thing in her past.
    Nick: You mean murder.
    Monroe: Yeah, well, you know... We don’t have to get into the details right now.

& Nick: You killed someone else tonight?
    Angelina: Yeah, he was trying to rape me. So, yeah, he didn’t leave me with much of a choice.
    Nick: So that’s three people you’ve killed.
    Angelina: That you know of.

---

& Hank: That was amazing!
    Monroe: Well...
    Hank: Can you do it again?

& Angelina: All right, so how do we deliver a dead Monroe without killing him?

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Trial and Execution

TURN 3×10

& Nathan Hale: I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

& Simcoe: We’re going to do this properly.

& Maj. André: I fully expect the tribunal to find me guilty and to recommend my execution. I beg of you to allow that sentence to be carried out by firing line rather than the gallows. One is a fate befitting an officer and the other is meant for a spy.
    I am an officer dedicated to service and stained with no action that can give me cause for remorse. I wish the mode of my death to reflect this.
    Washington: I will consider it.

& Judge Woodhull: Who is Abraham Woodhull?

& Washington: Arnold is a traitor. André was merely doing his duty. I would trade a thousand Andrés for Arnold!
    Benjamin: Nathan Hale was doing his duty, sir, and they hanged him as a spy.
    Washington: Hale? Hale was captain in our militia. André is Adjutant General of the British Army. He does not hang without consequences.

& Washington: Benjamin’s beloved classmate from Yale. As a friend, you knew him better than most. Do you remember his final words?
    Benjamin: «I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.»
    Washington: From the drama «Cato...» Except he didn’t write them and he never said them. We did.

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& Maj. André: I, um... apologize. It seems I won’t be able to make it home after all.

& Maj. André: Arnold was a failure. Culper is the master stroke.

& Simcoe: Right. Guilty. Death by hanging.

& Maj. André: It’ll be but a momentary pang.

& Maj. André: I pray that you all bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.

& Judge Woodhull: Get out of my town, you pathetic amateur.

& Rivington: «When the epic strain was sung,
        the poet by his neck was hung,
        and to his cost he found too late,
        the dung-born tribe decides his fate.»
    Our André will be avenged!

& Arnold: Drink. Whatever’s cheapest.
    Townsend: Here you are, sir. Our best ale on the house.

& Arnold: No one will ever know the true measure of my sacrifice.
    Townsend: It is difficult to measure sacrifice. Often it seems to me that it is a road with no end.
    Arnold: Of course there’s an end. The end is death.

& Townsend: Mr. Rivington.
    Rivington: What is it, Townsend?
    Townsend: I’d like to buy an advertisement...

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House of Cards 4×7

Chapter 46

& Underwood: Don’t worry about you and me now. Find your steel, Claire.

& Underwood: ...you’re right. Whoever it is, they need to be hungry for it.

& LeAnn: He is the top data scientist in the country, maybe the world. He was exploring behavior adoption and— ... Didn’t you hear the leadership? They said Conway is destroying us. Macallan reverses that, he wins us the election.

& Conway: ...And to me, that future is clear. Less government, less taxes, more freedom, protect that freedom!

& Underwood: Imagine a duel. Me and Conway... Now, Conway has a powerful gun, a search engine. And it’s powerful because with it, he can tell what you think, what you want, where you are and who you are. He can turn all those searches into votes, and that’s enough bullets to kill my chances of winning. But I have an even bigger gun. It’s called the NSA. It’s one of the perks of being president...

& Underwood: Your phone, the phone of the person sitting next to you, your neighbor’s phone and everyone you know and the 300 million Americans you don’t know. I can see you, and I can use what I see to rig this election...

& Underwood: They roasted him on the spit for tapping into a few rooms at the Watergate. I’m talking about tapping into every single home in America.

---

& Underwood: Hmm... All three of us took bullets. Well, I know why we’re smiling. We survived.

& Aidan: How do I know I can trust you?
    Doug: I don’t care whether you trust me or not. But if we go down this road, you take the fall if anything goes wrong. Not us, not the president. You. It’s the only way this works. So you tell me if you think it’s worth it.
    Aidan: The worth... You have no idea.

& Underwood: When the Roman general Sulla, who was about the same age I am now, marched on Rome to purge the city of usurpers, it was a bloodbath. His greatest rival was a young man named Marius, who was just 26 years old. And after Sulla had him killed, he held up his head in the forum and looked into the boy’s dead eyes and said, «First, you must learn to pull an oar. Only then can you take the helm.»

& Underwood: Conscience has an unmistakable stink to it, sort of like raw onions and morning breath. But a lie stinks even more when it’s coming from someone who isn’t used to lying. It’s more like rotten eggs and horseshit.

& Conway: We’re not tracking individuals. We’re looking at metadata, large-scale browsing patterns, search trends, regional portraits. ’Cause Ben is right. A president should know his constituents. And the Internet is the best tool for that. Now, I’ve met thousands of people and shaken a lot of hands, but I can’t meet everyone. So this is my way of listening to millions of you.

& Claire: They’re beautiful, aren’t they? The Conways. Their youth, their two little children. The country is falling in love with them. They won’t fall in love with us like that, but we have something they don’t... We are willing to go one step farther than everyone else.

& Underwood: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. Tall men make great presidents.

& Underwood: We’re going to destroy them.
    Claire: Yes, we are.

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Jane Got a Gun

& Katie: Do good people ever turn bad in the upside-down tree?
    Jane: No. Good people never turn bad.

& Jane: If them bullets don’t kill you, and this storm you somehow brought upon us don’t kill you, goes without saying... I will kill you... But I reckon, you might just be immortal.

& Dan Frost: Well... let’s hope the Bishop boys are all very big and fat.

& Jane: This is a job for him. Nothing more.

& Dan: Minus one.

---

& Jane: It pain you to take a life like that?
    Dan: Pain me a lot more to let him do it to me. Only point of a battle, Jane, is to end it in your favor.

& Dan: You know, fear is good, Jane. Fear will keep you alive.

& Dan: The hell with numbers. We had the Johnnies outnumbered well and truly. You know, it took us four years to do what we should’ve done in a few months, because they had will and purpose. If you got those two things, numbers ain’t shit.

& Dan: A man loses purpose, that’s when a man dies.

& Dan: A man pays for everything he takes, Hammond. You’re no different.

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The Uptick

Silicon Valley 3×10

& Gavin: How the fuck does something like this happen? How does an elephant just die?

& Gavin: Patrice, I thank you for your honesty, and I will repay you with my own... I honestly never want to see you in my offices again. You’re fired.

& Erlich: ...And then, it settles in. F.O.M.O. The fear of missing out.

& Erlich: It’s my Mona Lisa. And the entire cornerstone upon which I built this motherfucking cathedral that I will forever be remembered for, was this beautiful... little... uptick.

& Dinesh: Well, whatever you did or didn’t do, that was serial-killer-level shit.
    Gilfoyle: Agreed. I think I finally respect you as a CEO.

& Jared: Richard, don’t weaponize my faith in you against me.

& Gilfoyle: I hope you don’t think we’re guilty by association, because then we would have to think you’re guilty by association, which we don’t.

& Monica: Well, I really appreciate it. Uh, Laurie wants out.

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& Richard: Fuck.
    Jared: Yeah... Frick.

& Dinesh: Look at this. There are 157 people using it near Gleb. And 400 people using it near Tara in Boston.
    Gilfoyle: Yeah, I told her to give it to her Satanist friends out there. Looks like she did.
    Dinesh: She knows 400 Satanists in Boston?
    Gilfoyle: The Catholic church really did a number on that town.

& Richard: So when you were referring to the person who bought Pied Piper as a contemptible asshole, you were talking about Erlich?
    Laurie: To which contemptible asshole did you think I was referring?
    Monica: Gavin Belson.
    Laurie: Oh... I see. No.

& Erlich: You want a number? The percentage I give a fuck about you, zero. It’s trending steady.

& Erlich: I don’t trust you, Richard Hendricks.

& Big Head: Do we really want it to be called Pied Piper anymore?

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Р. А. Лафферти — Чужими глазами

Девятьсот бабушек (сборник)

  “— Что-то меня не радует встреча очередного Великого Дня, — сказал Григорий Смирнов. ...

&  — Радость открытия — это первоначальное и мимолетное состояние изобретателя, а дальше начинаются рабочие моменты.

&  Мир может выглядеть совсем иначе, если смотреть на него глазами другого человека. Я уверен, что Вселенная, которую мы привыкли считать единственной, на деле состоит из миллиардов непохожих Вселенных, и каждая создана только для того человека, который на нее смотрит.

&  Теория, даже самая лучшая, — не более чем факт, обглоданный тем, у кого нет зубов.

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&  Сложно не быть критиком, если вокруг полно того, что можно критиковать. Трудно не быть неверующим, если все время задаваться вопросом: создан ли этот мир Богом или выношен косоглазой страусихой?

&  — Нет ничего «нормального». Есть только разное.

  ... С недопониманием можно смириться. А вот внезапное полное понимание другого человека может производить сокрушительный эффект.”

Of Course He's Dead: Part 1 & 2

Two and a Half Men 12×15

& Walden: Do you ever experience shame?
    Alan: Uh, shame is a rich man’s emotion. I can barely afford embarrassment.

& Walden: Alan slept with her, too.
    Alan: Hey, after 12 years, everybody’s slept with everybody.

& Evelyn: Charlie is still alive?!
    Rose: Yeah, kinda.
    Alan: What do you mean, «kinda»? ’Cause she «kinda» drank when she was pregnant with me, and now I «kinda» can’t do math.

& Walden: Uh... so, uh... what exactly happened to Charlie?
    Alan: Yeah, start from the beginning.
    Rose: You mean from the pilot?

& Lieutenant Wagner: All right, now, let me see if I got this straight. 12 years ago, your wife kicked you out, and then you and your dumb son moved in with your brother.
    Alan: Uh, uh, he wasn’t dumb at the beginning. Uh, he got dumb later on.
    Lieutenant Wagner: What happened?
    Alan: Uh, well, turned out it was funnier.

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& Lieutenant Wagner: Now, if I can, uh, offer you a word of advice... I would consider wrapping this whole thing up.
    Alan: Uh, what do you mean?
    Lieutenant Wagner: I mean the whole living arrangement. The kids, the girls, the beach house. I mean, this whole thing has been going on waaay too long.
    Alan: Yeah, a lot of people been saying that.
    Walden: Haters gonna hate.

& Walden: You won $2.5 million?!
    Jake: Oh, yeah. It’s not that hard. I kept playing craps because, you know, «crap...» Oh, and I kept betting on come, because...
    Walden: Wow. That’s... amazing that you made so much money with such stupid jokes.

& Alan: Uh, uh, okay, long story short— it turns out my brother is alive and he’s out for revenge.
    Judith: Revenge? For what?
    Alan: Well, he didn’t think I could go on without him. He thought I was more of a supporting character in his life, but it turns out I-I was sort of a co-lead.

& Christian Slater: I’m telling you, I’m not Charlie Harper.
    Lieutenant Wagner: Then who are you?
    Christian Slater: My name is Christian Slater. I’m an actor, all right? I was in a bar, and this guy hands me a drink. Next thing I know, I wake up in a hotel room dressed like a 12-year-old, with a screaming woman in the closet.
    Lieutenant Wagner: Yeah, right. And I’m the governor of California.

& Chuck Lorre: Winning.

The End

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Don't Give a Monkey a Gun

Two and a Half Men 12×14

& Alan: Oh, this is so uncomfortable.
    Walden: What?
    Alan: Well, I’m about to have breakfast with my current lover, my former lover, and my husband... Oh, my God, I’m turning into my mother.

& Lyndsey: I’m sorry, so, after living in his guest-house for free for four years, your billionaire friend is granting you a wish?
    Alan: Just one! This is so hard.
    Lyndsey: Yeah. What do you get for a guy who has... nothing?

& Walden: This is my fault. I gave you too much power. You don’t give a monkey a gun. Did we learn nothing from Planet of the Apes?

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& Walden: Uh, well, to celebrate our divorce, I’d like to get my ex-husband an engagement ring for his on-again, off-again girlfriend. Oh, and I might need your card, in case I propose to my girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend, our social worker. Also, do you validate?

& Walden: Don’t worry about the price. Just get what you want.
    Alan: Wow. Lyndsey is very lucky to have a man like you in my life.

& Berta: I’m out of here.
    Walden: What?! You’re leaving?
    Berta: Yeah. I want to get home and watch the series finale of The Big Bang Theory. Matthew McConaughey is guest starring.
    Louis: I didn’t know President McConaughey could act.

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The Winds of Winter

Game of Thrones 6×10

& Margaery: Faith is the way, Father.

& Qyburn: Please, Grand Maester. I bear you no ill will. Please forgive me if you can.

& Qyburn: Whatever your faults, you do not deserve to die alone in such a cold, dark place. But sometimes before we can usher in the new, the old must be put to rest.

& Cersei: Confess. It felt good.

& Cersei: Even confessing feels good under the right circumstances...

& Septa Unella: I’m ready to meet the gods.
    Cersei: What? Now? Today? You’re not going to die today. You’re not going to die for quite a while...

& Bronn: You don’t even have to do anything, do you? You just sit there, a rich slab of beef, and all the birds come pecking.

& Jaime: Have you done much fighting yourself, Lord Frey? ...
    Lord Frey: The purpose of fighting is defeating your enemies, isn’t it?.. I’ve defeated mine.

& Sam: I’m—I’m to be the new maester.

& — This is irregular.
    Sam: Yes, well, I suppose that life is irregular.

& Melisandre: Could have been worse, Jon Snow. You had a family. You had feasts.

& Melisandre: I only do what my Lord commands.
    Ser Davos: If he commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil!

---

& Melisandre: I didn’t lie. I was wrong.

& Jon Snow: You told me Lord Baelish sold you to the Boltons.
    Sansa: He did.
    Jon Snow: And you trust him?
    Sansa: Only a fool would trust Littlefinger.

& Sansa: Jon. A raven came from the Citadel. A white raven. Winter is here.
    Jon Snow: Well, father always promised, didn’t he?

& Ellaria: I chose the wrong words. It is not survival I offer. It is your heart’s desire.
    Lady Olenna: And what is my heart’s desire?
    Ellaria: Vengeance. Justice.
    Varys: Fire and blood.

& Daario: Fuck Meereen. Fuck the people.

& Daario: Who comes after you? Who can ever follow Daenerys Stormborn, the Mother of Dragons?
    Daenerys: A great number of women, I imagine.

& Daario: I pity the lords of Westeros. They have no idea what’s coming for them.

& Tyrion: How about the fact that this is actually happening? You have your armies, you have your ships, you have your dragons. Everything you’ve ever wanted since you were old enough to want anything, it’s all yours for the taking. Are you afraid?... Good. You’re in the great game now. And the great game’s terrifying.

& Tyrion: For what it’s worth, I’ve been a cynic for as long as I can remember. Everyone’s always asking me to believe in things— family, gods, kings, myself. It was often tempting until I saw where belief got people. So I said no, thank you to belief. And yet here I am... I believe in you.

& Daenerys: I, um... I had something made for you. I’m not sure if it’s right... Tyrion Lannister, I name you Hand of the Queen.

& Arya: My name is Arya Stark. I want you to know that. The last thing you’re ever going to see is a Stark smiling down at you as you die.

& Sansa: I came here every day when I was a girl. I prayed to be somewhere else. Back then I only thought about what I wanted, never about what I had.

& Lord Baelish: The past is gone for good. You can sit here mourning its departure or you can prepare for the future.

& Uncle Benjen: The Wall is not just ice and stone.

& Jon Snow: The war is not over. And I promise you, friend, the true enemy won’t wait out the storm. He brings the storm.

& Lady Lyanna: But House Mormont remembers. The North remembers. We know no king but the King in the North whose name is Stark. I don’t care if he’s a bastard. Ned Stark’s blood runs through his veins. He’s my king from this day until his last day.

& Lord Manderly: Jon Snow avenged the Red Wedding. He is the White Wolf. The King in the North.

& Lord Glover: ...There will be more fights to come. House Glover will stand behind House Stark as we have for a thousand years. And I will stand behind Jon Snow... the King in the North!

& Qyburn: Long may she reign!

Run the World (Girls)

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Preacher 1×5

& Bartender: $100 for a brave, $50 for a squaw, and $10 for a child. ... This ain’t Injun. This is Mexican. Injun scalps ain’t near so greasy. Mexican’s half-price.

& Jesse: I made him a bet...

& Jesse: You said so yourself... I have a gift. How could I lose?

& Emily: This doesn’t feel like you.
    Jesse: It’s not me. It’s God.

& Cassidy: All right. Well, go on, then. Ask me.
    Tulip: Fangs?
    Cassidy: No.
    Tulip: Turn into a bat?
    Cassidy: No.
    Tulip: Sleep in a coffin?
    Cassidy: Not if I can help it.
    Tulip: Afraid of the cross?
    Cassidy: It’s a 2,000-year-old symbol of hypocrisy, slavery, and oppression. But it won’t burn me face off.
    Tulip: Silver bullets?
    Cassidy: That’s a werewolf.
    Tulip: Sunshine.
    Cassidy: Oh, yeah. That’s legit.
    Tulip: You’d die?
    Cassidy: The invention of sunscreen... that was a nice bonus.

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& Tulip: But you drink blood?
    Cassidy: Yeah. Helps me heal. All things bein’ equal, I’d rather have single malt.

& Tulip: We lost everything ’cause of him. Took two years to track him down. Now I have. Now I found him. Alls that’s left to do is go over there and get him, tie him to a table, cut his freakin’ balls off, and, over and over, stab him in the face with a screwdriver.
    Cassidy: And your boyfriend said «no» to this?

& Odin: Oh, how the sun shines. When you take time to look at it. Yep.

& Jesse: Who’s next? How can I help you?

& Jesse: I have changed. You see that, right? Which means you can change, too. I know you can. We don’t have to be what we’ve been. You can be good. That’s what we want, right? We... We all want to be good.

& Jesse: Forgive him.

& Jesse: Heaven... as in the sky above?
    DeBlanc: Is there another?

& DeBlanc: No, no, no, no. You don’t understand. What’s inside of you, it isn’t God.

& Odin: Yep. We grow or we die, Miles. We grow or we die... Yep.

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& Deckard: I was quit when I come in here, Bryant, I’m twice as quit now.
    Bryant: Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You’re not cop, you’re little people!
    Deckard: No choice, huh?
    Bryant: No choice, pal.

& Deckard: I’ve had people walk out on me before, but not when... I was being so charming.

& Leon: It’s painful to live in fear, isn’t it? Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch.

& Leon: Wake up! Time to die.

& Rachael: You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?

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& Pris: We’re not computers, Sebastian. We’re physical.

& Sebastian: You’re so perfect.
    Roy: Yes.
    Sebastian: What generation are you?
    Roy: Nexus 6.

& Mr. Tyrell: I’m surprised you didn’t come here sooner.
    Roy: It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker.

& Roy: Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.

& Roy: All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain.

& Deckard: All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where do I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got?

& Gaff: It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?

& Deckard: I didn’t know how long we had together. Who does?

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Boompa Loved His Hookers

Two and a Half Men 12×13

& Alan: Sex is so much better with someone you know well.
    Walden: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
    Alan: That’s why so many marriages last forever.

& Walden: Okay, fine, I admit it. I-I made a mistake. I just... I Alan’d this whole thing up.
    Alan: My name as a verb. I like it.

& Alan: People think I’m gay? That’s hilarious! Can’t wait to tell my husband.

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& Walden: This is weird. Feel like I should be doing something dad-like. Like drinking beers outside. Or grilling something. You know, something manly.

& Walden: Okay, buddy, here we go. This is the first time we’re walking into this house as an official family.
    Berta: Cool. Walden Schmidt, Louis Schmidt and a big pile of Schmidt.

& Walden: I traded her for you! Oh, my God! We’re idiots!
    Alan: I know. We’re gonna die alone!
    Walden: Worse! We’re gonna die with each other!


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Mr. Robot 2×0

& Fred Kaplan: The only completely secure computer is a computer that no one can use.

& Zachari Levi: Everything about us is all digital. It’s all in a cloud. Now you can go get somebody’s social security, fingerprints, images, everything. You can literally take over their entire life. That’s... frightening.

& Zachari Levi: It’s not like they’re talking about it in science-fiction terms. What they’re tackling is something that’s actually currently, right now happening.

& Peiter Zatko: People are horrible at being sources of randomness, so, you know, somebody might think, «Oh, I used my dog’s name, my baby’s name, and the birth... and the birth date.»
    That’s a horrible password. It might seem complicated to you, but we know how you think because you’re a human... and humans are predictable.

& Emily Yoshida: There were two instances on «Mr. Robot» where something incredibly prophetic happened on the show weeks away from it happening in real life. The Ashley Madison hacks were one. ... And then the other one was the shooting of the news anchor in Virginia that happened so close to a similar event happening on «Mr. Robot» that the finale had to be delayed a week just out of sensitivity. These aren’t just isolated incidences that exist in a bubble. These are things that are symptoms of larger things going on in our society.

& Ryan Kazanciyan: The hacks that are happening every week in the real world are stranger than fiction almost.
    Power plants hacked, a movie not released because North Korea was upset, some of the biggest retailers in the world lose millions and millions worth of credit cards or data, hospitals shut down because all their files got encrypted by someone trying to get ransom out of them.
    These all sound like the storylines of a TV show about hacking, but it’s actually happening now.

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& Kate Coyne: «Mr. Robot» is absolutely showing everyone that we are living in a society right now in which secrets just don’t exist. You maybe can’t trust many people at all.

& Kate Coyne: The more accessible we make ourselves, the more people are probably going to be able to take advantage of that.

& Kate Coyne: By the end of watching season one of «Mr. Robot,» anyone who previously just typed away on a computer, you’re probably going about those transactions now with just a little more caution, a little bit more of a realization that that little lock symbol doesn’t mean a whole lot.

& Peiter Zatko: Ben Franklin said it best: «Those who give up liberty for security will have neither.»

& Kor Adana: Every single hack that we show on the show is possible...

& Rami Malek: I’ve learned quite a bit, maybe too much. It’s kind of scary, mm, what I’m capable of these days.

& Narrator: For the creators and fans alike, there’s an appreciation that the realism lies in the details.
    Peiter Zatko: People are screen-capturing the images on the computer screens, and looking at them to see if they’re real. And they are real, and that takes a lot of time.

& Narrator: «Mr. Robot’s» realism extends to the schemes and methods that are currently in use by the hacking community. Their ability to infiltrate and alter a physical environment was illustrated by the Steel Mountain hack, a scenario that closely paralleled one of history’s most famous cyber attacks, Stuxnet.

& Kor Adana: If you feel that there is injustice, sometimes the only way to deal with it is... to out-monster the monster.

& Sam Esmail: That’s great. I’ve infected my paranoia with everyone.

The Good Shepherd

Grimm 2×5

Dressed in the skin,
the wolf strolled into the
pasture with the Sheep. Soon
a little Lamb was following him
about and was quickly led
away to slaughter...
Aesop, «The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing»

& Bud: I really feel bad about this, I feel responsible for... Whatever I should be responsible for.

& Nick: With all due respect, Reverend... Your position strikes me as a little counter-intuitive.
    Reverend Calvin: The same can be said of you, Detective. And yet here we are, Grimm and Blutbad and Kehrseite, engaged in civil discourse.

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& Reverend Calvin: I have learned to accept all of God’s creatures. If you cut off my head, I forgive you.

& Nick: By the way, what’s a... Kehrseite?
    Monroe: It’s like a, um, normal person, you know? Not like you or me. Like Hank. Although Hank now knows. So technically, he’s a Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen.

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Barry Lyndon

& Narrator: First love! What a change it makes in a lad. What a magnificent secret it is he carries with him! The tender passion gushes out of a man’s heart. He loves as a bird sings... or a rose blows from nature.

& Sergeant: Gentlemen, you may fight it out with fists if you choose. We’ll form a square for that purpose.

& Narrator: It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years’ War in which Europe was engaged and in which Barry’s regiment was now on its way to take part. Let it suffice to say, that England and Prussia were allies and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians and the Austrians.

& Narrator: It is well to dream of glorious war in a snug armchair at home, but it is a very different thing to see it first hand. And after the death of his friend, Barry’s thoughts turned from those of military glory to those of finding a way to escape the service to which he was now tied for another six years. Gentlemen may talk of the age of chivalry, but remember the ploughmen, poachers and pickpockets whom they lead. It is with these sad instruments that your great warriors and kings have been doing their murderous work in the world.

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& Narrator: A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. This heart of Lischen’s was like many a neighboring town and had been stormed and occupied several times before Barry came to invest it...

& Narrator: Five years in the English and Prussian army, and some considerable experience of traveling the world, had by now dispelled any of those romantic notions regarding love with which Barry commenced life. And he began to have it in mind, as so many gentlemen had done before him, to marry a woman of great fortune and condition...

& Narrator: To make a long story short... six hours after they met... Her Ladyship was in love.

& Mother: Shall I tell you something?.. There is only one way for you and your son to have real security. You must obtain a title. I shall not rest until I see you Lord Lyndon. You have important friends. They can tell you how these things are done. For money, well-timed and properly applied... can accomplish anything.

& Second: Mr. Lyndon, are you ready to receive Lord Bullingdon’s fire? ...

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Нил Стивенсон — Система мира (3/3)

<< Середина

&  – Как любил говаривать Роджер: «Хорошо быть обучаемым».

&  – Вот почему я сказал: «Тогда и там, где могущественному правителю угодно будет её построить». Если не царь, значит, это сделает кто-то другой после моей смерти.– Или после моей, или после смерти моего сына, или после смерти моего внука, – говорит Иоганн. – Человеческая натура такова, что, боюсь, это случится не раньше, чем способности логической машины потребуются для войны. А такое трудно вообразить.

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&  Пар исправно качает воду, а излишки тепла согревают рудокопов. Пока всё работает, как задумано. Когда-нибудь Система даст сбой из-за погрешностей, которые вкрались в неё, несмотря на все усилия Каролины и Даниеля. Может быть, тогда потребуются волшебники нового рода. Но – ... – остаётся признать, что какая-никакая система, пусть ущербная и обречённая, лучше, чем вечное барахтанье в ядовитом приливе ртути, из которого всё родилось.

  ... Такого рода памфлеты могут расходиться, в то время как творения более глубокие и основательные останутся нераспроданными.

Джон Уилкинс”

Σ cheshire-pig: Я закончил «Барочный цикл». Невыразимо томительное, невыразимо нудное, невыразимо мучительное и невыразимо прекрасное чтение. Два месяца я ждал каждой свободной минуты, чтобы вернуться в эту книгу и жить в ней. Разумеется, в ней есть какие-то свои недостатки, но одно ее достоинство перевешивает их разом: всякий раз, видя, как много остается до конца, я радовался, как ребенок, который, только приступив к первому куску огромного торта, счастлив оттого, что удовольствия впереди — много!

Anomalisa

& Lisa: I bought one of those... self-teaching... Self-teaching? Is that right? Or is it self-learning?

& Michael: I think you’re extraordinary.
    Lisa: Why?
    Michael: I don’t know yet.

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& Lisa: I want to learn Italian someday. It’s so wonderful. It’s just so romantic.
    Michael: Keep talking.
    Lisa: I like different languages. I love French and Italian the most. I don’t like German. It sounds mean to me. All those «ach’s.» And I love Japanese, obviously. Oh, I love Portuguese. I love to listen to Brazilian singers. They sing in Portuguese in Brazil, a little-known fact. It’s kind of weird because it’s the only country in South America where they sing in Portuguese.

& Lisa: Things can work out. That’s the lesson.
    Michael: Sometimes there’s no lesson. That’s a lesson in itself.

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Chapter 45

& Doug: Then let him die.
    Lee: I’m not doing this. It’s not just the law. It’s the ethics—
    Doug: Then change your ethics! Or you can resign, and your deputy can make this call. And if he won’t, then he can resign, too. I will strip away this entire department until I find who I need... Now make the call.

& LeAnn: ...they can control what people see. They can force-feed it. Even if they’re not doing that, even if they’re just tracking users, it’s enough to beat us. You know what people are searching for, you know everything, their hopes, their fears, what they’re thinking about when they’re staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night.

& Cynthia: I thought you wanted this.
    Dunbar: Not if it means breaking the law.
    Cynthia: Do you think he’d even be having this conversation? You actually care about the law, Heather... which is why you need to be president.

& Claire: As long as we’re working together, you have nothing to worry about.

& Russo: Rest your eyes. We have all the time in the world.

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& Dunbar: It doesn’t matter whether he was unconscious or not, whether he lives or dies. The president is the people who work for him.

& President Petrov: You are a beautiful woman, Mrs. Underwood, hmm? Those lips...

& Claire: It’s my plan. I know it backwards and forwards.
    President Petrov: I see, so that’s why it’s so important to you. Because it’s yours.

& Underwood: I wanna get out of this place as soon as possible.

& Doug: A lot to catch you up on, Mr. President...

& President Petrov: Is this how you tried to convince Michael Corrigan before he hung himself? Because that’s what you are asking me to do, to tie the noose around my own neck! What’s next? The Black Sea? The Arctic?

& President Petrov: Go, go. We’re done here.

& President Petrov: You should talk to your husband...

& Underwood: Stay with me. It’s us against them. Always. Otherwise, what’s the goddamn point?

& Underwood: I said you were nothing, in the Oval, without me. It’s the other way around.

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Нил Стивенсон — Система мира (2/3)

<< Начало

&  – Кажется, это было... здесь! Здесь я впервые ступил на английскую землю.
     – Мне тоже так помнится.
     – Конечно, если верна концепция абсолютного пространства, то мы оба неправы, – продолжал Лейбниц. – За сорок один год Земля много раз обернулась вокруг своей оси и вокруг Солнца, а Солнце, как все мы знаем, пролетело огромное расстояние. Посему я ступил на берег не здесь, а в каком-то другом месте, оставшемся далеко в межзвёздном вакууме.

&  ...под руку подвернулось безотказное средство самозащиты интроверта на людном сборище: документ, позволяющий изобразить, будто ты с головой погрузился в чтение.

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&  Редкие творения человеческих рук так долговечны и привязаны к своему месту, как каменные нужники, особенно те, куда по традиции ходит вся округа.

&  К тому времени Даниель сделал ещё одно важное открытие: пусть недвижимость дорога, зато люди дёшевы. Собственно, он мог бы значительно раньше вывести это из того, что за крохотные кусочки серебра они чистят дымовые трубы, ложатся в постель с сифилитиками и подставляют себя под пули в Бельгии, но, как многие, счастливо избавленные от такой необходимости, всячески старался не думать о подобных вещах...

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Tumbledown

& Hannah: In the middle, you feel like it’s never going to end...

& Upton: You know, there are many stages of grief... Hannah’s currently going through vandalism.

& Andrew: Hey, it’s called investigative journalism, guys. Okay? Your mom’s paying me to do this.

& Esther: I wished to keep living in the present, to die just as happy as I was at my birthday party, and to be reincarnated as my granddaughter’s cat.

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& Andrew: It’s very rare for me to get to dine with the executioned and its executioner, that’s all I’m saying.

& Ellen: Listen, every year presents a milestone. Knocking out your baby teeth, graduating, heavy petting—
    Hannah: Ew.
    Ellen: When you’re old, there are only two milestones left... grandchildren and death, and you just pray that one comes before the other.

& Hannah: Isn’t it weird, you spend your whole life trying not to die some way or other, and then when something really terrible happens, you just wish it were you and not them?

& Hannah: What do you want me to say?
    Andrew: I don’t know what I want you to say. I just like it when you say things.

& Hannah: I love living in a place where you earn your seasons, you know? Tough it out, see the ice return itself to mud, slimy reeds... become hopeful again.

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A Beer-Battered Rip-Off

Two and a Half Men 12×12

& Ms. McMartin: ...But before the adoption is final, I want you to tell Louis you two aren’t gay.
    Walden: Are you sure that this is the best time to do that? I mean, I haven’t even talked to him about the birds and the bees, let alone the bees and the bees.

& Ms. McMartin: I know there is never a perfect time to tell your son his two dads aren’t gay... but it’ll be more harmful the longer you wait.

& Lyndsey: Are you really asking me to stay?
    Alan: Yes, I mean, we’ve shared so much over the years. We can’t just throw it away like a... a long-running hit television show that still pulls in a pretty decent audience.

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& Walden: Do I need to take you to a meeting?
    Lyndsey: No, still sober. But I should apologize for sleeping with your husband... Not the first time I’ve said that.

& Walden: Alan? I want you to get your penis out of my business!

& Walden: ...And I’m warning you, you stay away. I am a billionaire and I can buy my way out of at least one murder! This is still America.

& Alan: I grant you that, you know, maybe it was a mistake to sleep with her, but when a woman has five cats, she doesn’t have to be «made crazy.»

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Нил Стивенсон — Система мира

<< Движение (Барочный цикл — 7)

Барочный цикл — 8

  “Церемония утреннего туалета была придумана Людовиком XIV и, подобно другим нововведениям Короля-Солнца, возмущала добропорядочных англичан, знавших о ней лишь по страшным рассказам, как версальские придворные продают невинность своих дочерей за право подержать рубашку или подсвечник на одевании монарха. ...

&  – У вас задница вылезает из штанов, мистер Макдугалл, что в человеке вашей профессии я всегда воспринимаю как знак напряжённого продуктивного труда.

&  Сержант Боб ... давно заметил, что солдатский опыт измеряется тем, как быстро человек угадывает начало сражения. Для Боба Шафто оно началось, когда сырой ветер зародился над Темзой, и теперь уже наполовину закончилось. Для малого, спросившего: «В каком тумане, сержант?», сражение ещё лежало в неопределённом будущем. В крайних формах подобная некомпетентность ведёт к тому, что отряд уничтожают во время сна или на привале, в мягких – к неоправданным потерям. На такой случай у Боба было только одно лекарство: действовать, чтобы тугодумы встряхнулись и последовали его примеру.

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&  – Доктор Лейбниц как-то давно сказал мне, что есть два интеллектуальных лабиринта, в которые рано или поздно забредает каждый мыслящий человек. Один – состав континуума, то есть из чего сложено вещество, какова природа пространства и так далее. Второй – проблема свободной воли: выбираем ли мы, что делать? Иными словами, есть ли у нас душа?

&  – Значит, ответ отрицательный.
     – Ответ положительный. Всё упирается в сроки, сударь. Ни вы, ни я, ни принцесса не властны их сократить. Она хотела бы разрешить всё нынче же – сегодня! Вы тоже торопитесь. Вы старик – как мы все – и боитесь не успеть. Но наши желания тут ни при чём. Природе нет дела до наших удобств – она откроет свои тайны, когда сочтёт нужным. «Математические начала» могли бы не появиться, не отправь нам Природа в восьмидесятых пригоршню комет и не расположи их траектории так, чтобы мы смогли сделать знаменательные наблюдения. Может пройти десять лет, сто или двести, прежде чем она даст нам подсказку для тех задач, о которых мы говорили сегодня.

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61 Degrees

Hell on Wheels 5×10

& Mei: What happen?
    Bohannon: Long story. But that’s over for now.

& Huntington: Heard you found your family.
    Bohannon: I did.
    Huntington: Thought you were gone.
    Bohannon: I ain’t.

& Bohannon: Just one batch, Jim. That’s all I’m askin’.

& JiM: What’s the temperature?
    Bohannon: Fifty five.
    Jim: Up here, you’ve to stay below 60. One degree more, you start a chain reaction you can’t stop. What’s it now?
    Bohannon: Fifty seven.
    Jim: Here. At sea level, you can let it get all the way to 65.

& Jim: He made a dozen batches before he realized his mistake. He disappeared into a red mist. That’s the last thing my left eye ever saw... Hm?

& Jim: Every breath you take with this in your hand, is a challenge to God.

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& Maggie: No more schemes. Mmm-mmm. Cheatin’ people, it leaves a bad taste.
    Durant: It is in the nature of the lion to eat the zebra. Come back to bed.

& Durant: The Railroad never keeps cash on hand. A defense against thieves.

& Maggie: Where’s the money, New York?
    Durant: I needed the funds to cover a lumber deal in Maine.
    Maggie: Maine?
    Durant: That lumber deal is financing a steel mill in Chicago, which is supporting a cotton operation in Virginia, which is supporting a coal mine in Kentucky...
    Maggie: Jesus. You’re broke.
    Durant: I am between transactions.

& Huntington: Can’t have Mozart and Chopin playing different tunes on the same piano.

& Janie: Why do fish fight when they get hooked?
    Jim: Because their job is to get away.
    Janie: But doesn’t fighting a hook make it harder?

& Chang: What lies beyond the railroad for you?
    Huntington: Everything that’s not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose isn’t nailed down.
    Chang: A truly American sentiment.

& Chang: A man who desires only one thing will never be satisfied.

& Jim: Hey, Bohannon. You know why fish always pull against the hook, even though it makes things worse?.. Because they’re fish. They don’t know any better.

& Bohannon: Whoo! Let’s clear this rock! We got a mountain to move!

& Bohannon: Every step of my life, I lost everybody I ever had. All I got left is scars.

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House of Cards 4×5

Chapter 44

& Doug: Sir? Sir, it’s Doug.
    Doctor: Just because his eyes are open doesn’t mean he’s fully conscious. Insufficient liver function. His brain is swimming in a pool of unprocessed ammonia. If he’s seeing anything, it’s probably severe hallucinations.

& Claire: I have an idea, if you can trust me to handle it...
    Blythe: I’d trust you with my goddamn life, Claire.
Ω Spooky.

& Doug: It’s very simple, Martha. You work with us, you stay on as AG. You don’t, we prosecute.

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& Tusk: Why should anybody believe you more than me?
    Ramy: You take that chance... and watch Clayton West become a penny stock. Or we’re heroes for ending the oil crisis, everybody gets rich, your image is restored. They’ll probably even let you choose the next ambassador in Beijing...

& Hammerschmidt: You honestly think Underwood was murdering people? Where is your skepticism?
    Kate: I’m skeptical of Lucas and I’m skeptical of the White House.
    Hammerschmidt: How come there’s no proof? None.

& Doug: What should I do, boss?

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The 5th Wave

& Cassie: I miss the Cassie I was... A totally normal high school girl.

& Ben: You have something against pink?

& Cassie: When you’re in high school, just about everything feels like the end of the world.

& Cassie: I thought we were safe here...
    Oliver: Pumpkin, there’s nothing safe anymore.

& Sergeant Reznik: Push the button!

& Cassie: How do you rid the world of humans?.. First, you rid the humans of their humanity.

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& Ringer: And no demeaning, sexist remarks!

& Evan: I’ve never been a huge fan of the outdoors. Too many bugs.
    Cassie: You live on a farm.
    Evan: Accident of birth.

& Oompa: That was bad ass, Ringer. I’d hug you if I didn’t think you’d punch me in the nuts for it.

& Ben: We’re not fighting the 5th Wave. We are the 5th Wave.

& Evan: Our kind believe that love is just a trick. An instinct. A way to protect your genetic future.

& Evan: I was wrong when I said I was both one of you and one of them. You can’t be both. You have to choose. I choose you.

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Daily Active Users

Silicon Valley 3×9

& Laurie: Yes. Tables. I see. It’s a metaphor. It’s a wonderful ad spot.
    Erlich: Yeah. We’re all just tables.

& Richard: Let me, uh, let me just take a step back here and explain it in a simpler way. Um, sorry, what was your name?
    Bernice: Bernice.
    Richard: Bernice. What did you have for breakfast today?
    Bernice: Scrambled eggs.
    Richard: Scrambled eggs. And what’s in the eggs?.. Electrons. Right? And we all know how electrons exist in orbitals..... Multivalent states? No? No one knows this? Okay. Okay, that’s fine. Bad example. That’s on me.

& Richard: This goes way beyond autocomplete. Actually, all of your devices will begin helping each other in ways that we can’t even design or predict.
    Clark: Okay, but see, the problem is... Terminator.
    Richard: What? No. No, no. No, no, no. No. I can assure there is no Skynet type of situation here. No. Pied Piper will in no way become sentient and try to take over the world.
    Clark: He just told us he couldn’t predict it.

& Dinesh: So... we’re tanking, and it’s because we’re too good.
    Richard: That’s one way of looking at it.

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& Dinesh: We simplify it.
    Richard: Well, we can’t. It’s not as if I don’t want to, it’s just that we literally can’t do it. Um, if you build an airplane and people are afraid of anything that flies, you can’t just take the wings off of it, because, at that point, all you’re left with is a really slow, super expensive shitty bus. No, uh, we built an airplane, we got to fly it.
    Gilfoyle: What’s the point of flying if it’s fucking empty?

& Jared: I guess it’s about $697,240. But don’t quote me on that.

& Erlich: Shut up! You ungrateful pricks, all of you. Your tepid response to our intrepid boss makes me ill.

& Gavin: Pied Piper’s loss is Hooli’s gain. May the best product win.

& Erlich: What in the name of fuck is that?
    Richard: Well, his name is Pipey. The Pied Piper Piper.

& Dinesh: So, Richard, you want us to take the most sophisticated and technically complex compression based platform ever created and... add that?

& Jared: You know, a lot of animated characters have rough starts. Early Bugs Bunny cartoons were just garish displays of anti-Japanese hysteria, and now he’s the face of Warner Bros.

& Richard: Face it, Jared, being too early is the same as being wrong.

& Richard: It’s over, Jared.

& Gavin: Consider the elephant... Legend has it its memory is so robust it never forgets. And I assure you, gentlemen of the Hooli board, and lady... neither do I.

& Erlich: Richard, you pulled us out of a nosedive. Of course, inevitably, we will run out of fuel and plummet towards the Earth, leaving only a crater behind of torn flesh and excrement, but in the meantime, we are flying high!

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Taxi

& Teacher: Oh, but there is a connection. When you’re defending an idea, it’s out of belief... Or a particular interest. I would like to know what your profession is.

& Jafar Panahi: Any film’s worth seeing. The rest is a matter of taste.

& — I’m looking for a good subject. I’ve seen many films, and read many novels. But I can’t seem to find a good subject.
    Jafar: Listen to me... Those films are already made, those books are already written. You have to look elsewhere. You won’t find it by staying at home.
    — Where do I need to go? What do I need to do?
    Jafar: That’s the most difficult part.

& Jafar: I wanted to see his face.
    Arash: What for?
    Jafar: Just to see what a thief looks like.
    Arash: Like you, like me, like all the people around us.

& Hana: She told us that to make a broadcastable film, a film needs to have the following rules: Respect for the veil and the Muslim decency. No contact between man and woman. No conspiracies. No violence. No tie for protagonists. No Persian names for protagonists, preference for the first names of Muslim prophets. Usage of the sacred names of the prophets...

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& Hana: Why aren’t you listening?
    Jafar: I’m listening, I was just thinking...
    Hana: What about?
    Jafar: I was wondering... what was going to happen to my old neighbor.
    Hana: Is it a positive or a negative character?
    Jafar: He has a Persian name and a tie...

& Hana: May I continue?
    Jafar: Go ahead.
    Hana: Don’t pose political or economical questions—
    Jafar: That’s enough.
    Hana: But no, it’s not yet finished. She told us to use our common sense, to feel the smaller problems, to masque our own. «For you to see,» she said.

& Flower lady: You know, Jafar. They make sure, that we know we’re being monitored. Their tactics are clear. They create a political record, you become a target of Mossad, the CIA, MI5. Then, they’ll add a sex scandal. They make your life a prison. You go out, but the outside world, is nothing but an even larger prison. They make your best friends your worst enemies. You will have to flee the country or leave you praying for a safe return. So there is nothing else to do. Nothing to do!

& Hana: She said that you should only show reality. But when reality is complicated or ugly, one cannot show this. I do not understand what to show or not, what is supposed to be real or not. I don’t want to fail. For example, everything that the flower lady just said, cannot be shown. However, all she says is real. There are realities they do not want to show. They create them, but they do not want to show them? I don’t understand.

& Jafar: The Ministry of Islamic Guidance rates the quality of «broadcastable» films. To my regret, this film wasn’t found broadcastable.

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