Arousal Template

Billions 4×2

Wendy: If you burn cash and have down quarters just to hurt Taylor, you're Neil McCauley throwing it all away to kill Waingro in that motel.

Wendy: This isn't all about you. We are all as sick as our secrets. So stop keeping 'em.

Bonnie: COAT?! The fuck is that?
Dollar Bill: It means "Chance of Action Tonight." Coat.

Grigor Andolov: Tai chi. The dance of the yin and yang.
Taylor: You ever practice?
Grigor Andolov: In my day, I have tried it all. But I always come back to brute force.

Grigor Andolov: Look before you leap. So long as in the end, you leap.

Rebecca Cantu: I saw value. I took. You think that makes me bad?
Bobby Axelrod: Yeah. I do. In the best way.

Sara: He may have already gotten us into a position from which there is no escape, only defeat. Zugzwang, you know?
Taylor: It's what I almost named the firm. In hopes that it would inspire us to get the other fella in that position.

Sara: It's a good thing you didn't name the firm Zugzwang. Would have outed how good a player you are. It's better they don't know.
Taylor: Better they never know.
Sara: I'm glad I know.

Chuck Rhoades: ... So it's jealousy.
Bobby Axelrod: And from where I sit, I usually see jealousy turn into the other thing.
Chuck Rhoades: Greed.

Bobby Axelrod: There may be a way for you to satisfy everyone involved, without hurting anyone...
Chuck Rhoades: Everyone wins and no one loses? I thought you and I live in the real world.

Chuck Rhoades: And if there's a big loser, there has to be a big winner. Now, who's that gonna be?...
Bobby Axelrod: Take a guess.

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Ari Spyros: Ooh, a She-E-O. Nice...

Rebecca Cantu: Now what?
Bobby Axelrod: You hungry?
Rebecca Cantu: I could eat.

Chuck Rhoades: I was running. I am running. And when I win, I'm gonna roll over you like it's Tiananmen Square.

Rudy: Taylor blocked it. They're like the HAL 9000 or Rain Man. They're always playing the percentages.

Grigor Andolov: Garlic pepper and dill for you. Horseradish for me...

Taylor: ...it makes me more reliant on you. That ends now. Like the once great American Bob Ritchie said: "You can knock me down and watch me bleed. But you can't keep no chains on me."
Grigor Andolov: The Kid Rock. I admire him greatly.

Grigor Andolov: This I do. "Only God Knows Why."

Commissioner Sansome: I think there's one thing we can all agree upon as New Yorkers. Someone always wants something from ya. Someone's always hocking ya. 'Help me. Support me. Endorse me.'

Commissioner Sansome: I've seen the good he's done to clean up the streets of Gotham. And I can't wait to see what he's gonna do for the rest of New York State. I give you your next Attorney General... Chuck Rhoades!

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Don't Take My Sunshine Away

This Is Us 3×16

Randall: I wish we could stay longer, but we got a whiteboard at home that feels different.

♪ Jack ♪
♪ How much I love you ♪
♪ Please don't take ♪
♪ My sunshine away. ♪

Rebecca: I do not understand today's fashion.
Jack: Who does?

Zoe: Well, uh, a relapse I could deal with. You know, you date an addict, you know the-the risks, right? Uh, but it's just all the sneaking around and the lying.

Zoe: When you mentioned kids. Is that something you really want?
Kevin: Why? Are you pregnant?.. That was a bad joke... Wait. Are you pregnant?

Randall: It's important that I make a good impression on him. And I... You tend to be the most impressive part of the impressions that I make.

Randall: Dad, my science average is 97.6, and Willy Hogan's science average is 97.8. Which is why I need to read about mitochondria right now.

Randall: Okay. But if I don't get into an Ivy League college, it's on you guys.

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Gavin: I've seen you and your wife around here past few days...
Toby: Yeah, six days. We've been here... six days, and I still feel like I'm outside myself, watching someone else in my body from above.
Gavin: Tell me about it. We've been here six weeks.

Sophie: I just spent a lot of time wondering if you were okay. I also wanted to kill you. It was like 50% wondering, 50% wanting to kill... More like 70/30.
Kevin: 70% wondering if I was okay and 30% wanting to kill me?
Sophie: No.

Kevin: Can we go get a coffee?
Sophie: I'm engaged.
Kevin: Oh. Well, then, a coffee should be safe.

Kevin: I'm bad at making choices.
Sophie: Yeah, well, that's probably 'cause you're not used to doing it.
Kevin: What do you mean?
Sophie: Kev, y-you always got it all. I mean, our entire lives, you were able to get exactly what you wanted just by being you.

Sophie: Kev... just... decide what you want. You always get it.

Rebecca: What about our kids?.. What do you think their "happily ever after" is gonna look like?

Randall: We can't keep simmering like this forever.
Beth: Fine, you want to do this right now? Let's do this. Close the door.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Mamma Mia! (2008) <<

Donna: This place has taught me so much about friendship, loyalty, love, but most importantly, it's taught me that the best things in life, the very best things, happen unexpectedly.

Sky: We-- can't keep having this fight.
Sophie: Apparently, we can, until we realize that there's nothing left to fight for.

Rosie: Well, there was this other woman hanging around, and I asked him about her, and you know you're in trouble when the word "just" comes before the word "friends."
Tanya: That's how most of my marriages ended, too.

Rosie: I'm beginning to think my soul mate may actually be carbs.
Tanya: Then mine must be wine.

Customs Officer: Time has been most cruel to you, sir. Your hairline, it disappear. And your face, it collapse.
Harry: I would suggest we swim for it, but perhaps not. Men at our time of life...
Customs Officer: Sir, in your case, age becomes you, as it does the tree, the wine, and the cheese.
Harry: Thank you very much. You're not so bad yourself.
Customs Officer: Nah.

Sofia: It's called Karma. And it's pronounced, "Ha!"

Sophie: Sky is here, and these are my other two dads.
Fernando Cienfuegos: Of course it takes three great men to create such a woman.

Fernando Cienfuegos: You have the courage of a lion, the passion of a panther and the wisdom of a flamingo.
Tanya: A flamingo's wise?
Rosie: Let the man speak!

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The Squat

Grace and Frankie 5×2

Frankie: But we can't leave.
Grace: Why not?
Frankie: We're squatting. That means we have to stay put and squat.
Grace: Well, I'll go, and you can squat your brains out.

Frankie: Bad things happen when we split up.

Grace: And when is there "couch"?
Frankie: Squatting is not meant to be comfortable, hence the name.

Frankie: If I'm being honest, Grace, I like it better this way.
Grace: I could tell you not to get used to it, but then you'd say, "Too late, Grace. I've already given you a hobo nickname. It's Patches."
Frankie: Hey... I'm Patches!

Frankie: Oh, this is totally normal, Grace. First squat jitters. The adrenalin of day one has faded, and the fire of day ten has not yet been ignited.
Grace: Day ten?!

Grace: What exactly is all this supposed to accomplish?
Frankie: We're gonna wear them down till they give up. Have you forgotten how we became best friends? I wore you down. I didn't leave. I squatted you, Grace.

Coyote: You guys see pigs too, right?

Frankie: The point is, did you mess up doing something you wanted to do? Or are you messing up doing something that everyone else is telling you to do? Because that's what we did.
Grace: Yeah. And we don't do that anymore. I mean, you're young. You don't wanna waste your time being someplace you don't wanna be—
Brianna: I love that advice.

Frankie: Channel your inner cow... Now ride that cow to the moon.
Grace: I miss the pigs.

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Venom (2018)

Eddie Brock: There's no such thing as can't.

Carlton Drake: Have a nice life.

Jake: You know, for a smart guy, you really are a dumbass.

Eddie Brock: Do you ever feel like your life is like one monumental screwup?

Eddie Brock: What is wrong with me?!

Venom: Outstanding.

Stoner Dude: Dude! How did you do that?
Eddie Brock: Apparently, I have a parasite.

Eddie Brock: That is a dead-end!
Venom: Not for us.

Venom: Eyes, lungs, pancreas. So many snacks, so little time.

Eddie Brock: What the hell are you?
Venom: I am Venom. And you are mine.

Venom: Listen carefully, Eddie. You did not find us. We found you. Think of yourself as my ride.

Venom: Cooperate, and you might just survive. That is the deal.

Venom: Let's eat his brains.

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Venom: You want up?... Well, why didn't you just say?

Anne Weying: What, so, sound is like his kryptonite?

Eddie Brock: Did your mama not love you?

Anne Weying: I just bit that guy's head off!
Eddie Brock: I know, I know. I've been there, too. It's not fun.

Eddie Brock: Oh, Jesus! You can take this guy, right?
Venom: He has got shit you have never seen.
Eddie Brock: What does that mean? What are our chances?
Venom: Hmm. Pretty much zero.

Eddie Brock: Oh, fuck it. Well, let's go save the planet.

Dapper Dog Walker: Hey. Don't give up on her. Either of you.
Eddie Brock: We won't.
Venom: Who is that guy?

Eddie Brock: There are good people in this world, a lot of them. And then there are bad people. You have to tell the difference. The deal is, you will only ever be allowed to touch, harm, hurt, possibly, very possibly, eat very, very bad people, but never, ever, ever good people. All right?
Venom: Fine. But how does one tell the difference?
Eddie Brock: Well, it's super simple. I mean, you just have to... You can intuit it, you can sense it. Sometimes you can even feel it.

Venom: Can we get something to eat now? Otherwise, your liver, it's starting to look really, really good and juicy...

Cletus Kasady: When I get out of here... and I will... there's gonna be carnage.

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The Calm Before

The Walking Dead 9×15

Ezekiel: Today is proof that we can unite, not against a common enemy, but for the common good.

Jerry: Let the First Annual Inter-Community Reunification Fair begin!
Ezekiel: Jerry! We changed that.
Jerry: For reals? F.A.I.R. Fair?
Ezekiel: It's too many... Never mind.

Tara: Okay. So, how do we seal it? Spit and shake, blood oath?

Ezekiel: I knew this day would come. Never doubted it for a moment.

Ezekiel: Our son is taking a girl on a date to the movies tonight...
Carol: Everything you've just said sounds completely impossible.

Beta: You just had to give me the girl. No one else had to die. Now that deal... is done.

Eugene: Well, that's mighty courteous, but no thank you is necessary, as it was more of a "haveta" versus "wanta" situation. Obligation-wise.

Tara: It'll be winter soon...

Alpha: It's gonna be sweater weather soon, and I want to be ready. I have a feeling it's going to be a hard winter...

Siddiq: And in the end, they... Their time was cut short, but ours keeps going. So we have to keep going. For them and... for all of us.

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The Beguiling Man

American Gods 2×2

Czernobog: This is not good. There's... much to be done. The bell must ring. Mirrors covered. Windows opened. We must sprinkle the holy salt—

Czernobog: Wōtan... this country... is no good.

Mr. Wednesday: Mama-ji, you hear the battle cries. May I count on your blades?
Mama-Ji: You brought the fight to my doorstep! I have no choice but to resume the lopping of heads, drinking of blood, and liberating of souls... That is, if I can swap my weekend shift with Arjun.

Mr. Wednesday: Great battles require great preparation.
Anansi: And sacrifice to you.

Mr. Town: You're one tough motherfucker, Shadow Moon. I'll give you that. Is that why Cargo needs you? Hmm?
Shadow Moon: I don't know who the fuck Cargo is.
Mr. Town: He calls himself All-Father. Grimm. He goes by the name... Wednesday.

Mr. Town: Let me ask you a question. When somebody... when somebody tells you to rob a casino, or a bank, then you do it. When someone tells you to join the Old Gods in a secret war against the New Gods, then you do it. You are always just going with the flow, Shadow. And I need to know, why? Why the fuck is that?! Hmm?
Shadow Moon: ... Curious spirit.

Laura: I don't believe in luck. I don't. I'm an atheist... God is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Mad Sweeney: Well, you're in the fairy tale now, aren't ya? ...
Laura: You things are not gods, by the way. You're made by people. People who need answers and they're too fucking lazy to look for them themselves. I mean, who the fuck ever needed a leprechaun? You take and you take and you take and what do you give back to people? Nothing. You are monsters under the bed, just fucking with human lives.

Laura: I don't know what kind of syphilitic time period spawned leprechauns, but in my world, infidelity does not warrant a death sentence.
Mad Sweeney: Where I'm from, it's the greatest sin. To betray your sworn true love is the crime of a coward...
Laura: Cow!

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Shadow: Is there a book that you haven't read?
Shadow's Mom: A good book is a loyal and constant friend.

Shadow's Mom: Those boys and those cops, they want the same things we do: to be valued, to matter in this world. And to feel some love.
Shadow: But they don't even know me.
Shadow's Mom: They think they do. Their whole life they've been hearing a story about who you are. And you're the enemy in that story. One who will take what they have. Keep them from getting what they want.
Shadow: But that's not me.
Shadow's Mom: It doesn't matter. Most things people believe about the world are lies.

Mad Sweeney: Jesus, woman, are there any flies in the state of Wisconsin that aren't flocking to ya?

The Caretaker: That's the funny thing about magic. It takes years of practice. For most people.

Shadow's Mom: There's a light in you that is stronger than anything else.
Shadow: I don't feel it.
Shadow's Mom: It's there.
Shadow: How do you know?
Shadow's Mom: I gave it to you. I give it to you every day.

Laura: What's your shortcut, please?
Mad Sweeney: It's a little bit like the backstage. But a lot smaller. It's a place I can hide things. Be a tight squeeze getting through there with your manky hide but I can try. If it's that important to you.

Laura: You know, you could try a little gratitude every now and then. Might improve your luck...

Mr. Town: I work for the Gods. They gave us penicillin and streaming porn and aircraft carriers that circle the globe. You're siding with the relics who, quite frankly, don't deserve an ounce of your faith.

Mad Sweeney: Smile. It's just a bit of fun.

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Scars

The Walking Dead 9×14

Daryl: He ain't out here. I followed this to the ocean and back. Nothing out there, either.

Daryl: I'll be back when I find something.
Michonne: Plenty of reasons to come back. Finding something doesn't have to be one of them.

Daryl: Ain't gonna stop looking. Not ever.

Michonne: Might be easier if the only life I had to risk was my own. If I could just... walk away and take all the risk with me... if that somehow could make everyone else safe... that wouldn't be so hard.

Jocelyn: None of the adults in our group made it. They just... broke. But children... They grow. They learn. They're capable of anything.

Jocelyn: You already know you're going. So at least you can enjoy this.
Michonne: What if I never find him?
Jocelyn: You might not. But if you give up now, then you definitely never will. And you can't live with that, can you?

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Negan: I let her know that she's just as much a badass as Carl was. How he got into the Sanctuary and shot up a bunch of my men. How dear ol' dad ninja-sliced my jugular. They're all old stories, Michonne...

Negan: She likes listening to me talk.
Michonne: You like hearing yourself talk!
Negan: So we have that in common.

Negan: That is exactly right. She is your daughter, so she has her own ideas about how things should be.

Negan: You have no idea where she is. Maybe she's off petting a horse. Or maybe she is exactly like her mother, and she is not taking shit lying down.

Jocelyn: You know what's next, Linus.
Linus: Marked our kill, kill our mark.

Michonne: Oh, Judith, it's not that simple.
Judith: Yes, it is. You're my mom. You chose to be. Because you love me, and I love you. And loving someone means doing whatever it takes to keep them safe, right? But when did we stop loving Daryl? Aunt Maggie? Carol? The King?

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Manhunter (1986)

Hannibal (TV Series (2013–2015)) <<

Dr. Dominick Princi: The commissioner was saying that you're the one who got Garrett Jacob Hobbs, and then Dr. Lecktor three years ago.
Springfield: Lecktor killed nine people, didn't he?
Will Graham: Nine that we know of. Two didn't die.
Springfield: What happened to them?
Will Graham: One's on a respirator at a hospital in Baltimore, the other's in a private mental hospital in Denver.
Springfield: What did the psychologists say was wrong with Lecktor?
Will Graham: The psychologists call him a psychopath. They don't know what else to call him.

Jack Crawford: We only got three weeks left, and you're our best shot.
Will Graham: You think I'm gonna see him standing in the street and say, "There he is"? That's Houdini you're thinking about. The Tooth Fairy's gonna go on until we get smart or get lucky. He won't stop.

Will Graham: Thought you might be curious to see if you're smarter than the person I'm looking for.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Then by implication you think you're smarter than me, since you caught me.
Will Graham: No. I know that I'm not smarter than you.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Then how did you catch me?
Will Graham: You had... disadvantages.
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: What disadvantages?
Will Graham: You're insane.

Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Do you know how you caught me?! The reason you caught me, Will, is we're just alike. Do you understand?... Smell yourself.

Jack Crawford: It's your call, Will...
Will Graham: Run it.
Jack Crawford: And what if it encourages the Tooth Fairy to do something else beside write?
Will Graham: We'll all feel sick for a very long time.

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Jack Crawford: The mark you found on the tree?
Will Graham: Yeah?
Jack Crawford: It's a Chinese character considered a lucky sign in gambling. That same character appears on a Mah Jongg piece. It means "Red Dragon." Mean anything to you?

Francis Dollarhyde: Fear is not what you owe me. No, Lounds, you and the others, you owe me awe.

Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: You'd be more comfortable if you relax with yourself. We don't invent our natures, they're issued to us, along with our lungs and pancreas and everything else. Why fight it?
Will Graham: Fight what?

Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: Didn't you really feel so bad because killing him felt so good? And why shouldn't it feel good? It must feel good to God. He does it all the time. God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshippers last Wednesday night in Texas as they were groveling through a hymn to his majesty. Don't you think that felt good?
Will Graham: Why does it feel good, Dr. Lecktor?
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor: It feels good, Will, because God has power. And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is...

Will Graham: This started from an abused kid, a battered infant. There's something terrible about...
Jack Crawford: What, are you sympathizing with this guy now?
Will Graham: Absolutely. My heart bleeds for him as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies. As an adult, someone should blow this sick fuck out of his socks. Do you think that's a contradiction, Jack?!

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>> The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

= Red Dragon (2002)

The Last Sunday Funday

You're the Worst 3×6

Jimmy: Actually, studies have shown that marijuana can curtail being completely lame...

Lindsay: Paul would be so good at this...
Gretchen: You've said his name twice. Once more, you summon him like Beetlejuice.

Gretchen: But why photos of us? What does it mean?
Edgar: That we're the bar. The bar's inside us.

Gretchen: Beetlejuice, bitch!

Jimmy: They were too happy... They were too happy. No families are happy!

Edgar: Jimmy, I think this is over.
Jimmy: No. In battle, we risk all for a taste of the immortal. In retreat, sure, we lose nothing, but what we gain is far worse than nothing: Ignominy. And shame. We don't give up because they make us. We give up because we're lazy! Or would rather drink and watch Treehouse Masters.

Jimmy: Why are you so relaxed?
Edgar: Exactly.

Gretchen: This is the last Sunday Funday, isn't it?
Edgar: Oh, yeah...

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I Am Ashamed

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 4×2

♪ Meet Rebecca ♪
♪ She's too hard to summarize ♪

Paula: Hon, have you been online today?
Rebecca: That's a terrifying sentence. No, I have not. Why?

♪ Step out the door, then back through the door ♪
♪ Sit on the floor and stare at the floor ♪
♪ Rock yourself until you feel okay ♪
♪ And carpe diem, carpe dontem ♪
♪ Time to grab life by the scrotum ♪
♪ But, first, let's read some facts about stingrays...... ♪

♪ Take ♪
♪ One step forward, two steps back ♪
♪ No, two steps forward, four steps back ♪
♪ Five more steps back and now I'm back in bed ♪
♪ Okay, now I'm ready to go.... ♪

Heather: ...And the only reason you think there's a ghost or whatever is because it's Halloween right now. I mean, if it was Thanksgiving, you would think there was a turkey in here.

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Darryl: Holy Goddess of Milk Jugs! Oh, look at this breast milk. ...it looks gorgeous. Never frozen, vegan, non-smoking, alcohol-free. Look. Oh, so creamy...
White Josh: Guh-ross.

White Josh: I hate Halloween. It's just an excuse to sell toxic plastic costumes and death sugar candy.

Valencia: The candle draws out the spirit from hiding, the clove makes it safe for the spirit to emerge, and the crystals... they're just pretty.

Paula: Um, I-I thought this was gonna be boring, but you know what? Best. Halloween. Ever!

Paula: Oh, Valencia. Come on, these are great illusions! You're like David Copperfield without the assault allegations.

Rebecca: I know that it's easier sometimes to just dwell in that shame rather than move on. God, there is something weirdly satisfying about just... staying in... the purgatory of your past. But you have to move on... You can't change what happened, but you can change what will happen. So move on, Devon. Move forward.

♪ Some people are scared of goblins and ghosts ♪
♪ They shriek at a raven perched on a post ♪
♪ "Oh, no!" they cry ♪
♪ "It's a spooky black cat" ♪
♪ But there are so many things ♪
♪ Far more frightening than that..... ♪

♪ ....... Because nothing is as scary ♪
♪ As what lurks in your past ♪

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The Waiting Room

This Is Us 3×15

Rebecca: Hmm? No. I'm fine. Have you ever noticed that electrical outlets look like little surprised faces? Like little faces frozen mid-scream. You see that?

Rebecca: We're staying. This family stays.

Miguel: Dr. Monroe, um, what kind of tocolytic did you actually administer? Because if it was, uh, ter-terbutaline, there's a whole list of...
Dr. Monroe: Uh, do me a favor, for all of our sanities, let's stay off of the Internet. I like to pretend we still live in a world where only doctors are doctors.

Miguel: Hey, I used to, uh, I used to play this game with my kids. Name a food, any food, that isn't made better with either chocolate or ranch.

Rebecca: The circles on the chairs look like bacteria. Right? Isn't that what bacteria looks like? What a strange choice for a hospital...

Randall: Right, Mom?... Mom?
Rebecca: There's 17 chairs in here. You would think there would be an even number.

Rebecca: None of this matters. ..... Nothing mattered, because you were safe. We were safe, we were alive... sitting, waiting, in bright green chairs...

Miguel: Want to know the end of the game?
Rebecca: Hmm?
Miguel: You can't put chocolate on ranch.

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The Founder (2016)

Ray Kroc: ... You increase the supply, and the demand will follow. Increase supply, demand follows. Chicken-egg. Do you follow my logic? I know you do, because you're a bright forward-thinking guy who knows a good idea when he hears one. So, whaddaya say?

Ray Kroc: My secretary's under the impression that you wanted six?
Dick McDonald: Yeah, you know, I think that was a mistake...
Ray Kroc: Well, that's what I figured. I mean, what kind of drive-in can make 30 milkshakes at a time.
Dick McDonald: Better make it eight.

Employee (San Bernadino): Hi, welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?
Ray Kroc: Yeah, give me a hamburger, French fries and a Coca-Cola.
Employee (San Bernadino): That'll be .35 cents, please.

Employee (San Bernadino): Here you are.
Ray Kroc: What's this?
Employee (San Bernadino): Your food.
Ray Kroc: No, no, no. I just ordered.
Employee (San Bernadino): And now it's here.
Ray Kroc: You sure?.. All right. Where are the umm... you know, the silverware and plates and everything?
Employee (San Bernadino): You just eat it straight out of the wrapper, then you throw it all out.
Ray Kroc: All right. Really? Okay... Where do I eat it?
Employee (San Bernadino): In your car. At the park. At home. Wherever you'd like.

Mac McDonald: Speed, that's the name of the game. The first stop for every McDonald's hamburger is the grill. Manned by two cooks whose sole job is to grill those all-beef beauties to perfection. Meanwhile, as the patty cooks, our dressers get the buns ready. Watch out. Burger crossing... Every McDonald's burger has two pickles, a pinch of onions, and a precise shot of ketchup and mustard. ... Next, this is the finishing station where we put the whole thing together. And... Voila! A fresh, delicious burger from grill to counter in 30 seconds.

Mac McDonald: .... So one day, Dick has a realization. He sees that the bulk of our sales are only in three items. Hamburgers. French fries. Soft drinks.
Dick McDonald: Eighty-seven percent.
Mac McDonald: So we say to ourselves let's focus on what sells. And that's exactly what we do. Brisket gone. Tamales gone. But we don't stop there. We look at everything. What else don't we need?
Dick McDonald: Turns out quite a lot.
Mac McDonald: Carhops...
Dick McDonald: Walk up to a window, get the food yourself.
Mac McDonald: Dishes...
Dick McDonald: All paper packaging. Disposable.
Mac McDonald: Cigarette machines, jukeboxes.
Dick McDonald: Drive out the riff-raff.
Ray Kroc: Creating a family friendly environment here...

Mac McDonald: See, our whole lives we'd piggybacked off other people's ideas. We wanted something that
wasn't just different. It had to be better. It needed to be ours. And that's what brings us to the biggest cut of all.
Ray Kroc: Which was?
Mac McDonald: The wait.
Dick McDonald: Orders ready in 30 seconds. Not 30 minutes.
Mac McDonald: Mecca.

Dick McDonald: .... Finally, after about six hours of this, we get it just right. It's a symphony of efficiency. Not a wasted motion.

Ray Kroc: Franchise!
Dick McDonald: Beg your pardon?
Ray Kroc: Franchise! Franchise the damn thing! It's too damn good for just one location. There should be McDonald's everywhere. Coast to coast. Sea to shining sea.

Dick McDonald: Our energies are better spent making this place the best it can possibly be.
Mac McDonald: It's better to have one great restaurant than fifty mediocre ones.

Ray Kroc: Do it for your country!
Mac McDonald: What?
Ray Kroc: If you boys don't want to franchise for yourselves, that's fine. Do it for your country. Do it for America.

Ray Kroc: I've drove through a lot of towns. A lot of small towns. And they all had two things in common. They had a courthouse and they had a church. On top of the church you got a cross, and on top of the courthouse, they'd have a flag. Flags, crosses. Crosses, flags. Driving around, I just cannot stop thinking about this tremendous restaurant. Now at the risk of sounding blasphemous, forgive me, those arches have a lot in common with those buildings...
    A building with a cross on top of it. What is that? It's a gathering place where decent wholesome people come together and they share values protected by that American flag. It could be said that beautiful building flanked by those arches signifies more or less the same thing. It doesn't just say delicious hamburgers inside. They signify family. It signifies community. It's a place where American's come together to break bread.
    I am telling you, McDonald's can be the new American church. Feeding bodies and feeding souls and it ain't just open on Sundays, boys. It's open seven-days a week. Crosses. Flags. Arches.

Mac McDonald: Keep a tighter leash on everything. Complete oversight. Every change goes through us.
Dick McDonald: Who says he's going to listen?
Mac McDonald: We'll make him listen. We'll draw up a contact. Clear as day, black and white.

Ray Kroc: Every restaurant in the Midwest has a basement and a furnace. This is standard stuff.
Dick McDonald: I understand. But it's our name on that building. God forbid the floor caves in and people get hurt or worse because of some design flaw we missed. Let's just slow down a minute and make sure it's done right.
So much for the Speedee System, huh?

Dick McDonald: Don't you think maybe, given our experience, that this is all happening a little too quickly? If they all pop up at once, how is he going to maintain standards?

Ray Kroc: I'm going to give you three words. I want you to take those three words home with you tonight. McDonald's is family.

Ray Kroc: Family. We're one big family. Aren't we? We've got mouths to feed. That's a family.

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Dick McDonald: The nerve of this guy!
Mac McDonald: What?
Dick McDonald: Guess what he's calling his Des Plaines store... McDonald's Number one.
Mac McDonald: Then... What are we, then?
Dick McDonald: Could his head get any bigger?

Ray Kroc: Everything's changed...
Ethel Kroc: Changed, how?
Ray Kroc: Forget the Chicago suburbs. Think bigger.
Ethel Kroc: Bigger?
Ray Kroc: I'm not chasing them anymore. They're chasing me now.

June Martino: It's a powdered milkshake. Costs a fraction of ice cream and there's no refrigeration necessary.
Rollie Smith: It contains powdered milk. Thickening agents and emulsifiers simulate the texture of ice cream. Tastes just like the real thing.
June Martino: It's easy as pie to make. You put a packet into a glass of water and stir it.
Rollie Smith: I know maybe a tad blasphemous, what with your dairy background and all.
June Martino: Personally, I think it's a marvelous idea... Chocolate or vanilla?

June Martino: Good things come to those who wait.

Dick McDonald: Ray, we have no interest in a milkshake that contains NO MILK! Why don't we add sawdust to the hamburgers while we're at it? Frozen French fries!?..

Harry J. Sonneborn: So to summarize... you have a minuscule revenue stream. No cash reserves. And an albatross of a contract that requires you to go through a slow approval process to enact changes if they're approved at all. Which they never are. Am I missing anything?
Ray Kroc: That about sums it up.

Harry J. Sonneborn: Tell me about the land...

Ray Kroc: Is there a problem?
Harry J. Sonneborn: A big one. You don't seem to realize what business you're in... You're not in the burger business.
You're in the real estate business. You don't build an empire off a 1.4 percent cut of a 15-cent hamburger. You build it by owning the land upon which that burger is cooked.

Ray Kroc: If I were to do this, the brothers, they'd effectively would be...
Harry J. Sonneborn: Yes. So, whaddaya say, Ray?

Ray Kroc: I am through taking marching orders from you. You and your endless parade of nos. Constantly cowering in the face of progress.
Dick McDonald: If phony powdered milkshakes is your idea of progress, you have a profound misunderstanding of what McDonald's is about!
Ray Kroc: I have a far greater understanding of McDonald's than you two yokels.

Ray Kroc: While you two boys were content to sit back and be a couple of also-rans, I'm going to take the future. I wanna win. And you don't get there by being some aw-shucks, nice-guy sap. There's no place in business for people like that. Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth... Can you say the same?
Mac McDonald: I can't, nor would I want to.
Ray Kroc: Hence your single location.

Ray Kroc: Mac, I'm the President and CEO of a major corporation with land holdings in 17 states! You run a burger stand in the desert. I'm national. You're fucking local.

Mac McDonald: What are you buying?

Dick McDonald: 2.7 Million. It's a million for each of us after taxes. And one percent of the company's profits in perpetuity.
Ray Kroc: That's outrageous! That's borderline extortion! That's a bunch of bullshit!

Ray Kroc: Am I the only one who got the kitchen tour? You must've invited lots of people back there... How many of them succeed?
Dick McDonald: Lots of people started restaurants.
Ray Kroc: As big as McDonald's?
Dick McDonald: Of course not.
Ray Kroc: No one ever has and no one ever will. Because they all lack that one thing that makes McDonald's special...
Dick McDonald: Which is...?
Ray Kroc: Even you don't know what it is.
Dick McDonald: Enlighten me.
Ray Kroc: It's not just the system, Dick. It's the name. That glorious name, McDonald's. It can be anything you want it to be. It's limitless, it's wide open. It sounds... it sounds like... it sounds like America. As compared to "Kroc". What a crock. What a load of crock. Would you eat a place named Kroc's? Kroc's has that blunt Slavic sound. Kroc's. But McDonald's, oh boy. That's a beauty. Yeah, a guy named McDonald. He's never going to get pushed around in life.
Dick McDonald: That's clearly not the case...
Ray Kroc: So, you don't have a check for $1.35 million dollars in your pocket?

Dick McDonald: So if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.
Ray Kroc: I remember the first time I saw that name stretched across your stand out there. It was love at first sight. I knew right then and there, I had to have it. And now I do.
Dick McDonald: You don't "have" it.
Ray Kroc: You sure about that?

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Lasting Impressions

The Orville 2×11

Capt. Mercer: How far back does it date?
Dr. Sherman: Over 400 years. 2015, to be exact.

Bortus: What are these?
Dr. Sherman: Cigarettes. People used to light the tips on fire and inhale the smoke.
Lt. Keyali: Why?
Dr. Finn: They contained a substance called nicotine, which caused an addictive rush. That is, until they got cancer, which, at the time, was often fatal.
Bortus: The odor is very interesting...

Lamarr: That's weird... I've accessed the data, but the keypad's not responding.
Yaphit: Just a crazy idea: try turning it off and turning it back on again.

Dr. Sherman: We are looking at an actual human life, nearly 400 years gone.
Gordon: Looks like they weren't all that different from us...
Dr. Sherman: Well, ancient media records tell us what the world wanted us to see, but finds like this can help tell us who the people were.

Dr. Sherman: Look at this. She's clearly asking her friend where to find the nearest repair service for her device, "wireless telecommunications facility," she just wrote "WTF." Now, we can decode things like this by applying historical context.

Bortus: It is not food. Dr. Finn said the tip is to be ignited and the smoke inhaled...
Klyden: The sensation is... wonderful.
Bortus: I have never experienced such a flavor.
Klyden: I feel as if I have been standing my entire life, and I just sat down.

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Klyden: We must have more.
Bortus: 500 cigarettes.

Gordon: We look at these images of people who lived hundreds of years ago, and they're so distant-looking that it's easy to think that they don't matter. But then you stand in a room like that, and you realize... this used to be their world. And it was just as alive to them as ours is to us.

Capt. Mercer: God. They were on the verge of a major climate disaster, and there's a whole page about teeth whitening.
Kelly: It's a miracle the human race survived.

Laura Huggins: I don't even have to be a huge success. I just want to be rich enough to be unhappy but not enough to be miserable.

Laura Huggins: More important ... I just think it would be nice to be remembered for something. I mean, we all live and die on this planet, and... most of us are just forgotten. To me, there's nothing sadder about the world than that.

Lt. Keyali: You think he's working too hard?
Kelly: Gordon? Never.

Gordon: So, next time you're on a bumpy flight, just picture jiggling Jell-O... And knock back five or six cocktails. You'll be fine.

Kelly: Humans are social animals. When we're born, we're a blank slate, and over the course of our lives, we... expand and grow as a result of external stimuli.
Gordon: Pretty dry philosophy.
Kelly: It sounds it, but it's not. Every single one of us is shaped by the totality of our relationships... People we love and people we hate all make their mark. Whether we like it or not, it's who we are; it's reality.

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Ariadne

Russian Doll 1×8

♪ Gotta get up, gotta get out ♪
♪ What if I'm late? Got a big date ♪
♪ Gotta get home before the sun comes up ♪
♪ Up and away... ♪

Maxine: Sweet birthday baby.
Nadia: Maxine. Come here. I fucking love you so much!

Nadia: Co-dependently speaking, I'd love to lie to you and tell you I'll be back in an hour, but I think our friendship can handle me being honest with you.

Maxine: Take it. Let's go down together.

Nadia: Listen, listen, listen. Between you and me, I have recently encountered death numerous times, and I come bearing some good news. Life is like a box of timelines. You feel me?
Joe: No. I don't understand what you mean.
Nadia: Suffice to say that while yes, on this plane, your wife is dead and smoking kills, somewhere she is alive and well sipping a mai tai on a beach, uh... on horseback, smoking a cigarette, maybe with Fabio.
Joe: No Fabio. God, you're making me jealous.

Horse: What's your deal?
Nadia: What is anyone's deal? Life is a fucking nightmare, right? Being a person is a fucking nightmare.

Nadia: Oh, my God, I'm sorry. Is this some kind of a creepy Dead Zone scenario?

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Mike: I'm just trying to... consensually screw this young lady in peace.

Horse: You're supposed to get down on one knee, aren't you?... Oh, uh... I thought you'd never ask.

Alan: You told me that time is relative.
Nadia: Actually, your buddy Einstein said that.
Alan: Metaphysically speaking, you and I are intrinsically and inexplicably linked.
Nadia: Mm-hmm.
Alan: And I'm convinced our true purpose is to to connect with each other, if not help save each other's lives. In another world, hopefully you are doing the same for me.
Nadia: Time's up.

Nadia: Would you like to hear a story?... Did you ever hear the one about the broken man and the lady with a death wish who got stuck in a loop?
Alan: Tell me.
Nadia: Once upon a time...

Nadia: You see, life was too painful. Or they were too fragile. But either way you slice it, they just couldn't hack it. And then one night... something miraculous happened. They made it through alive.

Nadia: It's wild how they don't hit you when you look both ways, huh?

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The Way Out

Russian Doll 1×7

Lenora: This is it, Nadia. This is the day we get free.

Alan: So the loops started because we didn't help the other person!
Nadia: I think so.
Alan: I knew we were being punished!
Nadia: Easy there, Mr. Rogers. This is not good or bad. It's just a bug. It's like if a program keeps crashing, you know? The crashing is just a symptom of a bug in the code.

Alan: But if we were supposed to help each other and we didn't... how is that not a moral issue?
Nadia: What do time and morality have in common?... Relativity. They're both relative to your experience.

Nadia: All right, so our universe has three spatial dimensions, so it's hard for us to picture a four-dimensional world. But, you know, computers do it all the time. Now lucky for you, I have the capacity to think like a computer...

Nadia: ...And we rewrite our first interaction. Just like you would fix a flaw in a code. Then we run a unit test.
Alan: Is that a term that people should know or...
Nadia: Basically, we run a little program and we see if the bug is triggered.
Alan: And how do we know if it's triggered?
Nadia: We die.

♪ Gotta get up, gotta get out ♪
♪ Gotta get home before the morning comes ♪
♪ What if I'm late? Got a big date ♪
♪ Gotta get home before the sun comes up ♪

Maxine: Sweet birthday baby!

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Nadia: I love you both so much. I cannot be the reason that you stop existing. I would never forgive myself.

Maxine: Hey, birthday baby.

Nadia: To the deli.
Maxine: But I don't need anything from the deli.
Nadia: We need supplies. Apocalypse! Fire escape!

Nadia: Max?
Maxine: Sweet birthday baby.

Nadia: Fuck you!
Alan: That might be the last thing you ever say to me. Seriously.

Alan: Thank you for changing my life. Lives are hard to change.

Alan: You did. You did tell me. I just didn't listen. You told me every time I asked you what was wrong, and you said, "Nothing." Every time I touched you, you gently pulled away. No matter how much we think we're fooling people, our bodies... they can't keep lying the way that our minds can.

Nadia: I love you, Ruthie. I love you... and I'll see you in the next one, Ruthie.

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Twenty-Two

You're the Worst 3×5

Edgar: What if I go and this is my best last chance and they can't help me?
Dorothy: Then we try something else.
Edgar: What else?! I've tried booze, drugs, talk therapy, pills—

Dr. Tabitha Higgins: Believe you me, when I think of the difficulties that our chronic underfunding has meant for our patients, it just makes my blood boil. We are making strides, though. We have a plan to stop being fax dependent before the next war...
Edgar: Wait, you guys know when the next war is?!

Dr. Tabitha Higgins: So, you are taking Paxil, Ambien, Chlordia...
Edgar: 11 different medications, actually.
Dr. Tabitha Higgins: Well, I take 15, and I never went to war. Getting old: don't do it.

Tow Truck Driver: Suicidal thoughts? You know the stats? 22 every day.

Edgar: I thought starting today, things would get better. But they don't give a shit.
Tow Truck Driver: Here's what you got to understand. They're not evil. None of 'em are. The military's job is to sand down our humanity just enough to where we can take a life.

Tow Truck Driver: The minute you stop looking for someone else to cure you, maybe you start living again.

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Live by Night (2016)

Albert White: You can't work on your own. Not in this town.

Joe Coughlin: We were in love and we were stupid.

Thomas Coughlin: If I've learned one thing above all, do you know what it is?... What you put out in the world will always come back to you. But never how you predict.

Joe Coughlin: I'm crazy about her.
Thomas Coughlin: Crazy isn't love.
Joe Coughlin: I saw your marriage for 18 years. It wasn't love...
Thomas Coughlin: No. No, it wasn't.

Thomas Coughlin: People don't fix each other. And they never become anything but what they've always been. All we get sometimes is a little luck...
Joe Coughlin: You make your own luck.
Thomas Coughlin: Sometimes. Sometimes, it makes you.

Joe Coughlin: Can you tolerate an Irishman in your crew?
Maso Pescatore: This is America. I've lived with worse.

Joe Coughlin: It's not enough to break the rules. You have to be strong enough to make your own.

Dion Bartolo: The Italians and the Cubans keep to themselves. But the Cubans, they hate the Spaniards, and the Spaniards look at all Cubans like they're uppity coons who forgot their place since America freed them in '98. The Cubans and the Spanish, they look down on the Puerto Ricans and everyone, I mean, everyone, shits on the Dominicans. The Italians only respect you if you came off the boat... And the white people think anyone gives a shit what they think.

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Chief Figgis: I know we live in a fallen world, but just because I breathe corrupt air and rub elbows with corrupt men, never make the mistake of thinking that I am corruptible.

Graciela Suarez: What is your cause?
Joe Coughlin: The distribution of demon rum. And that no man should rule another man's life.

Ritz Investor: We aren't men to be muscled or conned. We're an institution. We can't be bribed or bullied because I simply represent the vested interest of a board of governors. We are the landed white gentry in this country and we have no plans to carve off a strip of this country, which we have gone to great pains to break and colonize and hand it over to Catholics, Jews, darkies or dagos.

Loretta Figgis: You know what I learned as I've been thrusting my soul out to God?.. This is heaven. Right here. We're in it now.
Joe Coughlin: Then how come it looks like hell?
Loretta Figgis: Because we fucked it all up.

Loretta Figgis: I don't know if there is a God. But I hope there is. And I hope he's kind. Wouldn't that be swell?

Esteban Suarez: We are not our brother's keeper. In fact, it is an insult to our brother to believe we are.

Joe Coughlin: What are we gonna do when Prohibition ends?.. Gambling.

Joe Coughlin: In my experience, it doesn't take much to pull a trigger.

Maso Pescatore: You're not a killer, Joseph. You are a bandit in a suit.

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Chucky Rhoades's Greatest Game

Billions 4×1

Chef Ryan: Man like you should eat something. So you have fuel to burn.
Bobby Axelrod: Do I look like I need to fan the fire?

Bobby Axelrod: They better be iron fucking clad.
Orrin Bach: Believe me, they're tighter than AC/DC in '78.
Bobby Axelrod: Then let 'em fly.

AG Jeffcoat: No one's born to it, Ms. Sacker, not even you. He had to kill for it. 'S what makes it worth something. As you will likely find out one day...

Rhoades, Sr.: You need to go on the offensive. Because everyone else is lining up against you.

Chuck Rhoades: All I want is vengeance, and it will be had.

Chuck Rhoades: I don't think I can, Dad—
Rhoades, Sr.: You can and you will! The very difficulty of it is why you must.

Ira: Charles, thinking about your past, really freaks me out.
Rhoades, Sr.: What a glorious thing it was...

Taylor: Axe and Wags, even Wendy, are like the United Citizen Federation. They turned us all into Starship Troopers, sent us to Klendathu and some of us got our brains eaten. And it wasn't until the end of our time in that we realized: We were the bad guys all along.

Wagner Wags: This is one of those rare cases where size doesn't actually matter. You know how the price of admission for women into your fine country is that they cover their tatas and donut? Well, our version of that is 2 and 20. We won't stone you if you refuse, but we will kick you out of our fund.
Farhad: Are you comparing your fee structure, by way of several vulgarisms, to our religion?
Wagner Wags: To Bobby Axelrod, fees are religion and money is his God. This makes him the perfect shepherd for you in the material world. And at least when you pray to his God, you get another fucking Bentley out of it.

Wagner Wags: Taylor fucking Mason... I'm telling you. But gorgeous. Like Kate Jackson hot.

Chuck Rhoades: You ever just not want a day to start?

Wendy: You know how to do this. Like a honeybee. Take what you pick up here, you drop it there, just make sure at the end of the day, you're the one who ends up with all the nectar.

Chuck Rhoades: Wendy, I know what Commissioner Sansome needs. Won't be easy to get. Gonna have to pay Peter to pay Paul to pay George, Ringo and probably John, too. But at least I have a road map.

Chuck Rhoades: Mr. Eisen, sir. I might have a coffee with you, if invited.

Chuck Rhoades: It's the old joke about the congressman, right? Young girl from his district comes up to him. Says she wants to drop to her knees, take care of his business, and bring him a fresh made martini after. Politician looks at her and says: Hmm, what's in it for me?

Chuck Rhoades: Lemme work...

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Chuck Rhoades: What'd you trade for them? It was the parking permit, wasn't it?
Wendy: No, Chuck.
Chuck Rhoades: Really? Nobody wants this fucking thing.

Bobby Axelrod: Motherfuckers! What could they be doing to him?
Hall: Unclear.
Bobby Axelrod: Have they got him chained up? Would they torture him, rendition him back to their country?
Hall: Chemicals more likely... Pentathol, perhaps, other sedatives, to encourage docility, but, again, unclear.

Chuck Rhoades: Robert Axelrod, Atlas of the finance world.
Bobby Axelrod: Charles Rhoades, Esquire.

Bobby Axelrod: It'd take plenty... but who cares? If it matters to you, I can do it.

Bobby Axelrod: You'll have fun with Ayles. He's exactly the opposite of what he seems.
Chuck Rhoades: Who isn't these days?

Grigor Andolov: Intentions don't matter at all to me. I reward actions. And I punish them, too.

Sara: It was brave that you did what you had to do to get it.
Taylor: Whatever it takes. Still not used to having enemies.
Sara: It's a sign of your stature. Get used to it.

Bobby Axelrod: He's richer than me. And he's willing to do shit I am not. And he's connected to all those other people wanting to do the same shit for him.
Wagner Wags: You walking away?.. You're not walking away. Because, yeah, he's a Russian Oligarch. But you, mon frère, are a motherfucking Oligarch, too. An American Oligarch. You will not relent. Taylor must pay.

Bobby Axelrod: We don't put out this fire by pouring water on it. But by sucking oxygen out of the room. Slowly. Invisibly. Completely.

Chuck Rhoades: You know, I kind of feel bad for the old guy, scumbag that he was. Blindsided like that. But I guess that's New York for ya, right? Boss one minute, in the gutter the next... The best you can hope for is one last look at the stars before you go.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Brian Bretter: You're not my stepbrother any more. You're a step-stranger.

Peter Bretter: Groupie whore!
Sarah Marshall: Psycho stalker!

Kemo: You gotta stop talking about it. It's like The Sopranos. It's over.

Peter Bretter: You can't be so casual about this! This isn't Europe, okay? There are rules here.

Peter Bretter: And I'm not done either!

Aldous Snow: I've heard that women do fake orgasms, but I've never seen one. It really deeply upset me.

Aldous Snow: How you served five years under her, I don't know. You deserve a medal or a holiday or at least a cuddle from somebody.

Aldous Snow: Well, maybe you could have both of them. Rachel and Sarah. They got on all right, didn't they...?

Peter Bretter: Stop pulling my face towards your face.

Peter Bretter: Listen, I know that I fucked things up for a minute, but I'm not like every other asshole.

Dwayne: He refused a blowjob from his ex-girlfriend... mid-blowjob. Do you know what that's like for a man? It's called blue balls, Rachel! This guy is like Gandhi, but better.

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Fleabag #2.3

Fleabag: What's his name?.. What's his name?...
Claire: Klare.
Fleabag: What?
Claire: His name is Klare. Don't!

Belinda Friers: I'm trained in martial arts. It's just the basics, but it is enough.
Fleabag: I work at Harbots—
Belinda Friers: Hurbots.

Fleabag: I need to take your award back.
Belinda Friers: Why?
Fleabag: It's a stolen piece of art. It's not really an award. It's all my fault. I can explain.

Belinda Friers: Do you like old films?
Fleabag: Some.
Belinda Friers: And what's your favourite period film?
Fleabag: .... Carrie.

Fleabag: How old are you?
Belinda Friers: 58. And you?
Fleabag: 33.
Belinda Friers: Oh. Don't worry. It does get better.

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Belinda Friers: Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know... We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. They invent all these gods and demons and things just so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we also do very well on our own. And then they create wars, so they can feel things and touch each other, and when there aren't any wars they can play rugby. And we have it all going on in here, inside.

Belinda Friers: Listen. People are all we've got. People are all we've got. So grab the night by its nipples and go and flirt with someone.

Fleabag: 33 isn't exactly...
Belinda Friers: And what had Jesus done by 33?
Fleabag: Died?
Belinda Friers: Exactly! So get out there and flirt.

Fleabag: Do you think I should become a Catholic?
The Priest: Oh, no. Don't do that. I like that you believe in a meaningless existence.

The Priest: Celibacy is a lot less complicated than... romantic relationships.
Fleabag: What if you meet someone you like?
The Priest: I talk and drink and laugh and give them Bibles, and hope they eventually leave me alone.

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Brimstone (2016)

Sam: As life progresses, images blur. All that remains are memories. Some of them true... some of them false. I remember her well. At least I think I do. She was a warrior. In the old century, you had to be in order to survive...

The Reverend: Retribution is coming.

Sam: Mama, are you evil?

Frank: Rules are rules. If you don't obey the rules, you're guilty. And if you're guilty, you're gonna pay. You understand that, don't you?

Anna: It's a woman's fate.
Joanna: Says who?
Anna: Says the Bible.
Joanna: It's not fair.

The Reverend: You might believe it to be a curse, but he has a reason for everything. You have, as the Apostle Paul put it... "...passed the flower of your age."

Anna: It's a sin.
The Reverend: It does not have to be... "If any man thinks that he is behaving himself unseemly towards his virgin daughter... if she pass the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he will... he is not sinning, let them marry."

Samuel: I heard that story once... the one about turning the other cheek and all that. The only person who'd say something like that is someone who's in control. Someone who doesn't want you to stand up to him.

The Reverend: Many people believe that God does not approve of violence. They have not read their Bible. "Violence cleanses evil. It purifies the heart." Does your heart need purifying?

The Reverend: People think it's the flames that make hell unbearable. It's not. It is the absence of love.

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The House

Grace and Frankie 5×1

Benjamin Le Day: Who the fuck are you?
Frankie: Who the fuck are you?
Benjamin Le Day: No, I "who-the-fuck-are-you"-ed first!
Frankie: Seems we're at an impasse.

Benjamin Le Day: It seems you're breaking and entering.
No, we just wanted to see the house again. We used to live here.
Frankie: Not to bore you with a bunch of legalese, but double stampsies, no erasies. We want our house back.
Benjamin Le Day: No takesies-backsies.
Frankie: Damn. I see you went to law school.

Frankie: Grace, I got this. You know, I knew the second we met we were gonna be amigos huevos.
Benjamin Le Day: Egg friends?
Frankie: Egg-xactly. And over eggs we're gonna dish about my gay ex and my black son. How much in common do we have?
Benjamin Le Day: I don't know, do you hate you?

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Robert: I think you're all overreacting. You can't go crazy every time an old person doesn't answer their phone. Either we don't want to or we don't know how.

Grace: Well, he sure didn't waste any time, did he? We only broke up today.
Frankie: Well, you did kind of break up with him, like, 14 times. And you did move without telling him. But let's not draw on facts. They're so over.

Frankie: Sometimes you just have to say "fuck it" and refuse to leave.

Frankie: We have seller's remorse! I know that because you sold it and now we're remorseful.

Mallory: We didn't manipulate you!
Brianna: We convinced you.
Mallory: And what does it matter? Sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Especially when you're worried about your mom who happens to be sitting inside on outside chairs in a house that she doesn't even own with a toaster but no electricity!
Grace: We have a blowtorch.
Coyote: Oh, you've got a blowtorch. Okay, then all seems well here.

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xXx 2: The Next Level (2005) <<

Augustus Gibbons: You know how I came up with the idea for the Triple-X program? Skateboards and swimming pools...

Augustus Gibbons: Do you feel safer today than you felt yesterday? I know I don't. The biggest, most expensive military in the world, and we're still scared of shoe and tighty-whitey bombs at the airport. Why is that? Because soldiers are built to take orders and fight wars. But we, my friend, are not at war. We are at peril. That's why Triple-X.

Augustus Gibbons: What's the matter? You on a diet? You ain't hungry?
Neymar Jr.: It's seven-thirty in the morning...
Augustus Gibbons: So? It's lunch or dinnertime somewhere in the world.

Augustus Gibbons: You know who does feel safe? The men in charge. The world beaters. The top-shelf, par excellence ayatollahs with all the "dollahs." And that's because those righteous bastards, somewhere along the way, made a deal with the devil. They traded liberty for safety. And us, we the people, ended up losing both. That's why Triple-X.

Augustus Gibbons: At the end of the day, it comes down to the same question I've been asking my wife every Friday night for the last 20 years... Do you want some of this? Or are you just gonna...

Jane Marke: We need someone who can move like them, fight like them. We need someone who can walk into a tornado, and come out the other side like it was a damn gentle breeze. You know someone like that?

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Xander Cage: Okay! Come on out, Frankenstein!... Gibbons! Gibbons?...
Jane Marke: Olly-olly-oxen-free.
Xander Cage: You really do look different, Gibbons. Did you lose weight?

Jane Marke: Your country needs you, Mr. Cage. The Triple-X program needs you. It's time to be a patriot.
Xander Cage: By whose definition?

Xander Cage: The things I do for my country...

Xander Cage: The good, the bad, the extreme, and the completely insane. Now, this is a team I can work with.

Tennyson Torch: Did you know traffic signals were invented by Big Oil to waste fuel and drive up profits?

Xander Cage: It's just never a good idea to point a gun at me.

Hawk: You know me. Wind me up, point me in the right direction.

Darius Stone: Wassup? Rock, paper, scissor, grenade launcher.

Xander Cage: I live for this shit!

Augustus Gibbons: I love that song... And it could be a wonderful world, if we just stopped doing bad shit to it.

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Fleabag #2.2

Fleabag: Peace be with you.

The Priest: Do you want a proper drink? I've got cans of G&T. From M&S.

The Priest: A cool priest? No. I'm a big reader with no friends.

The Priest: The funeral liturgy says that life is changed, not ended... I've always loved that, if that's of any help.
Fleabag: Oh, well, thank you very much, but I really am an atheist.
The Priest: Yeah, I gathered that by the smelling of the Bible.

Fleabag: Oh, God, I fancy a priest.

Claire: Why are there so many people here?
Fleabag: Well, it's just successful, I guess.
Claire: Why is everyone talking to each other?
Fleabag: Oh, it's Chatty Wednesday. If you buy something, you have to have a chat with someone you don't know.
Claire: What?!
Fleabag: Loneliness pays.

Counsellor: Do you really want to fuck the priest, or do you want to fuck God?
Fleabag: Can you fuck God?
Counsellor: Oh, yes.

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Стивен Кинг, Ричард Чизмар — Гвенди и её шкатулка

 “Из Касл-Рока на Касл-Вью ведут три дороги: 117 шоссе, Плезант-роуд и Лестница самоубийц. ...

&  — Имена — это ещё не всё.

&  Стремление узнавать и делать — это суть человеческой натуры. Исследование, Гвенди! Оно — и болезнь, и лекарство.

&  У Гвенди мелькает мысль (свежая, взрослая мысль, которая позже станет докучливой правдой): тайны — это головная боль. Возможно,самая сильная из всех. Они давят на мозги и поглощают жизненное пространство.

&  Она надеется, что это случится не скоро, но когда случится — что ж, се ля ви, как любит говорить папа. Или «мерд се», что означает — дерьмо случается.

&  Лучшие планы шестнадцатилетних часто идут вкривь и вкось.

&  — У меня тоже есть поговорка: «Наличные — не доносчики». О чём дядя Сэм не знает, то его не огорчит.

  ... А потом со смехом кладёт его в карман.”

House on the Rock

American Gods 2×1

Mr. World: I can't sell war without my best salesman. You... need to find her..... Find Media.

Laura: What is the House on the Rock?
Mr. Wednesday: A place where people come to look, play, and wonder.
Laura: Like Disney World.
Mr. Wednesday: Dear old Walt... Built a Magic Kingdom without any magic.

Narrator: ... And people came to see him build it. The curious and the puzzled, and those who were neither; they could not honestly have told you why they came. So, he did what any sensible American male of his generation would do: he began to charge them money. Nothing much. A nickel. A quarter. And he kept building, and the people kept coming....

Shadow Moon: "Every ending is a new beginning.
Your lucky number is none.
Your lucky color is dead.
Motto: Like father, like son."
Mr. Wednesday: Oh, like all fortunes, Shadow: opaque on arrival, inevitable in retrospect.

Mr. Wednesday: Time... to ride.

Odin: .... A new life in a new land. Our true believers passed away, or stopped believing. Left us to fend for ourselves, to get by on what little smidgens of belief or worship we could find. And that's what we've done. We've gotten by. We live in cracks at the edges of society. Old, forgotten gods... in a land without gods. But there are New Gods growing in America. They've already replaced us. Now they want to destroy us, completely, and if you think otherwise, you are fooling yourselves.

Bilquis: The choice is yours. Evolve or die.

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Mr. Wednesday: Shadow Moon... To be continued in what some call the real world.

Shadow Moon: Seriously, are... are you not worried about cancer?
Czernobog: I am... cancer.

Laura: He's my husband. If you hurt him, I will kill you.

Mr. Wednesday: Hey, Shadow! I want you to come over here and meet Mama-ji! Biggest, badass demon killer this side of Ranchipoor.

Mad Sweeney: Hurts when someone takes what's yours. Doesn't it?

Mr. World: Never, ever let anyone know I said this. But, sometimes... the old ways are the best. There's nothing like a knife in the back... for close-up efficiency.

Zorya Vechernyaya: You are such... a bad good man.

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Blood of Patriots

The Orville 2×10

Capt. Mercer: The Davoro'kos?
Admiral Perry: Yes. It means "bringer of blood."
Capt. Mercer: Oh, that's cool.

Orrin: ...peace with the Krill is a big mistake.
Gordon: Do you really believe that?
Orrin: You make a deal with tyranny, it only gets worse.

Gordon: A lot of people have died during this conflict. If we can secure a treaty, then they didn't die for nothing. It'll bring meaning to Sophie's death.
Orrin: Don't you ever say that again... ever! Peace with the Krill is a slap in the face of Sophie's memory. It's the Union saying, "We forgive you for all the atrocities. We didn't care about those people anyway."

Gordon: I know you're a patriot at heart. And when you boil it down, that's what this is about.
Orrin: Patriotism is only for people with large families.

Lt. Keyali: If I'd been through what he has, I'd probably want every last one of them dead.
Capt. Mercer: And this is why peace treaties don't happen every day...

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xXx (2002) <<

Agent Gibbons: We gotta go off the grid now. Not another skater, snowboarder or biker. The new xXx has gotta be more dangerous. Deadlier. More attitude.
Toby Lee Shavers: More attitude? Where the hell are we gonna find that?

Darius Stone: And why would I do a damn thing for you?
Agent Gibbons: You ever see lions at the zoo? You can always tell the ones that were captured in the wild...
Darius Stone: ...by the look in their eyes. Jesus Christ. You still coming with that same sorry-ass speech? Does it ever actually work?
Agent Gibbons: From time to time, yeah.

Agent Gibbons: You're the new xXx.
Darius Stone: Sound like a porno star. What happened to the old xXx?
Agent Gibbons: He's dead. xXx is the designation we give to deep-cover agents with special skills.
Darius Stone: Yeah, whatever.

Darius Stone: Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.
Agent Gibbons: I like that. Who said it? Jefferson? Patton?
Darius Stone: Tupac.

General Deckert: I don't know what's more pathetic... a man that plays chess with himself... or a man that doesn't see he's already lost.

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Toby Lee Shavers: Head of the NSA, FBI, Joint Chiefs, secretary of state... Damn. You know what this means, right?
Darius Stone: What?
Toby Lee Shavers: They're gonna kill me next.

Darius Stone: The things I can't do for my country...

Agent Kyle Steele: Stone, I wanna help you here, I really do. But if you run, you look guilty.
Darius Stone: Brother, I was born looking guilty.

Darius Stone: So, what's your plan?
Agent Kyle Steele: Figure we gotta go outside the box on this one.
Darius Stone: How far outside the box are you prepared to go?

General Deckert: Augustus Gibbons always fought the system. This week, that fight became a war.

General Deckert: He's one man, captain. What can one man do?

Darius Stone: The fate of the free world in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves...
Agent Kyle Steele: Why should tonight be any different?

Agent Gibbons: See? I told you you should have killed that bitch.

President Sanford: .... And I hold this medal for the unknown soldier... wherever he may be. For wars come and go... but my soldiers, they stay eternal.
Lola Jackson: Did the President just quote Tupac?
Darius Stone: Son of a bitch stole my line.

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