Blood Drive

The Office 5×16

Pam Beesly: Shoot. They have new phone systems now that can ring directly to a salesman, or someone presses star and they go to accounting... Basically, 95% of my job... But I'd like to see a machine that puts out candy for everyone... Vending machine.

Michael Scott: I am about to give blood. The gift of everlasting life, the transfer of my bodily fluids... Wow, that's a big needle.

Michael Scott: Yeah. I'm good. I feel like a human juice box... Oh, God. Hawaiian blood punch... Type O-cean Spray.

Bob Vance: I honestly don't know how you can work with that jackass and that other jackass and that new jackass.
Phyllis Lapin: He's talking about Michael, Dwight and Andy.
Jim Halpert: Yeah. I understood.

Angela Martin: My worst breakup was actually two breakups. Two different men. I was in love with both of them and when things went bad they had a duel over me.
Meredith Palmer: Yeah, Dwight and Andy. We were here.
Angela Martin: No. This was years ago when I was living in Ohio. John Mark and John David.
Oscar Martinez: Angela, you had two sets of different men actually duel over you?
Angela Martin: I guess I have...

Dwight Schrute: Lonely people mixing with one another, breeding, creating an even lonelier generation? You're not allowing natural selection to do its work. You're like the guy who invented the seatbelt.

Michael Scott: These people need love. And I am going to get it for them. Who cares if we sell a little bit less paper today? A great boss cares more about the happiness of his employees than anything else. I am going to be Cupid. And I'm going to shoot my sparrow at unsuspecting victims and they are going to get hit and say, "I'm in love. I was hit by Cupid's sparrow." Funny little bird, but he gets the job done.

Kelly Kapoor: She could be your soul mate...
Dwight Schrute: Not likely. With three billion women on the planet, most of them live in Asia, so the numbers just don't add up.

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A Baby Shower and a Testosterone-Rich Banter

Young Sheldon 6×12

Georgie: Well, I'm gonna be at the birth, but I can't go to the party?
Missy: How do you know she wants you at the birth?
Georgie: Who's gonna catch the baby?
George: You may not want to be there. It's a rough one.
Mary: George.
George: Oh, you're right, dear. It's a beautiful event which I will never forget.
Sheldon: Wait, you said it was beautiful and then made a face to imply that it wasn't. So, which is it?
Missy: Oh, my God, Sheldon, it's disgusting.
Sheldon: He could've just said that.

Mary: I hate that woman!
George: Your mother? Eh, she ain't gonna live forever.
Mary: Mandy's mom.
George: Oh. Yeah, that one we're stuck with for a while.

Connie: I have a lot of grandkids. At some point, you just stop caring how they got here.

George: So, Connor seems like a good kid.
Jim McAllister: Oh, yeah, yeah, he's a good kid. From another planet.
George: Oh, I got one of those. Georgie's little brother.
Jim: Is he a 22-year-old art school graduate with no prospects of ever holding down a real job?
George: Actually, he's a science genius who started college when he was 11.
Jim: Let's just talk about the brisket.

George: 14 hours of smoke and love...

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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

Ada Harris: Oh. Ravissante... By Christian Dior.

Violet Butterfield: Ada, what you going to do?
Ada Harris: I'm going to buy a dress.
Violet Butterfield: Something pretty for the Legion Dance.
Ada Harris: Yeah. A Christian Dior dress from Paris. 500 quid.
Violet Butterfield: How much you win?

Ada Harris: Haute Couture, please.
Archie: The dog's a bag of bones. It couldn't win with a rocket up its arse.
Violet Butterfield: You tell her, Archie. She's lost her marbles.
Ada Harris: No, it's Haute Couture. It's a sign. How could it be anything else?
Archie: Ada, girl, I've been doing this a long time, all right? Signs don't win races.

Violet Butterfield: She's never done a thing wrong her whole life, sir. She went a bit crazy on account of some dress, but she's fine now. Nothing to worry about.

Ada Harris: Righto, Paris, here I come... It's a fair old walk.

Ada Harris: My Eddie's favorite. Be even better if we had a bit of gravy.
Natasha: Um, and what's the dish named?
Ada Harris: Toad-in-the-hole.

Claudine Colbert: I'm not a revolutionary like you, Mrs. Harris. I simply wish to be left alone.
Ada Harris: Well, that's... that's all fine and dandy, and Lord knows you deserve it, but you know it'll fall apart without you, don't you? Trust me, I've seen it over and over. When the lady ups and leaves, the gent don't last ten minutes.

Ada Harris: You're needed. Now more than ever. Who else is gonna keep things up to scratch? Not André or Monsieur Dior. What would two men know about that? You and me, you know, we're two peas in a pod. We clean up everybody's mess and make everything in the garden lovely. We're the ones they rely on. They don't even know what we do, but as sure as eggs is eggs, without us, it all goes tits up.

Archie: You seem different.
Ada Harris: Well, it's haute couture, you know?
Archie: Is it, now? Know what? It's not the frock. I mean, it's lovely and all, but, uh... no, it's you. You... You're just beautiful.

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Stray Rounds

The Wire 2×9

Det. Lester Freamon: No, they're not on us completely. If they were, they'd be shutting down and rolling out. Instead, they're just sitting inside, turning away calls, waiting us out.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: I, for one, am a patient motherfucker.

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I been here so fucking long that you're starting to look good to me.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Big night for Jimmy McNulty. Or should I say James Cromwell of Knightsbridge, Stepney and Mersey.
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: Excuse me?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Cromwell was the English fuck who stole my ancestors' land and the others are all from rock and roll songs.

Det. Ellis Carver: What do you want us to do with it?
Det. Lester Freamon: See if it arrives.
Det. Ellis Carver: And if it does?
Det. Lester Freamon: See what happens then.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: You wanna know something, Carv? I'm starting to think that, as criminal investigators, we're not really respected.

The Greek: Down there, I understand everyone is a terrorist now. Judges are killed. Bombs go off in the street. It's very bad.
Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos: The Colombians who cheated us are not with the guerrillas. They're trash.
The Greek: The world is a smaller place now. And the FBI cares very much about such things. Fair is fair, eh?

Sergei 'Serge' Malatov: Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn't us.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the fuck is that?
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: It's a man's purse. European men like yourself sometimes carry one.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Mm. Them people ain't right over there.
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: The mic has to go somewhere. Besides, you might have hands all over you before we get what we need.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Indeed I might, luv.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: It'll be your call when we come through the doors. You want us in, you say... What was it?
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: "Spot on." It means "exactly". Remember, they have to bring up the money and sex first, then an overt attempt to... engage.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Spot on.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Any time you guys want.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: The money changed hands, right?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Sounded that way.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: And they talked about sex?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Definitely. Any time you guys want... Hang on. Oh, God...
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Jesus Christ. Is it soup yet?
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Spot something. Spot on it.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You're late.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: He OK?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: He'll live.

A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: Any problems on the raid?
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: A complication or two. Nothing we can't write around.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: "At which point the officer was unable to resist the ministrations of the aforementioned suspect and found himself brought to the point of a sexual act." You're famous behind this, you know that? As a pervert, this report is gonna make you a BPD legend.
Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I can't perjure myself. I gotta explain it.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: You have violated a half-dozen departmental regs right there. And no state's attorney is gonna bring this into court.

Off. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: There were two of them! I was outnumbered.

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Green Juice

The Dropout 1×3

Elizabeth Holmes: That's my weakness. I... I never think about what things look like.
Ana Arriola: I can see that.
Elizabeth Holmes: Oh. No. You don't... you don't like what I'm wearing?
Ana Arriola: You should just dress more like a CEO.
Elizabeth Holmes: I... When I was with Mark Zuckerberg at the photoshoot for Ink, he was wearing soccer sandals, flip-flops.
Ana Arriola: Yes, but you are a woman. If you wear soccer sandals to work, everyone would think that you're having a mental breakdown.

Elizabeth Holmes: I just don't wanna waste my time picking out what I'm gonna wear.
Ana Arriola: It's not a waste of time. ... Listen, how you present yourself to the world is your identity. It's-- it's your armor.

Sunny Balwani: Why the fuck do you want a car that doesn't make any noise?
Elizabeth Holmes: It's a Prius, Sunny. It's what everybody is driving.

Security Guard: Sir, you can't go in there. If you don't work in engineering, you don't go in the lab.
Rakesh Dewan: But, E-- Edmond Ku is in Nashville and he asked me to check on things. Security Guard: Employees are siloed to their own departments.
Rakesh Dewan: Well, would I be allowed to knock in Morse code?
Security Guard: I can check.

Rakesh Dewan: Hey, listen up! Important question. Did anyone else get a friend request from Elizabeth's assistant?... Damn, I thought it was just me.

Avie Tevanian: I tried to email you, but... Why don't you have email?
Don Lucas: Because I've been sued too many times.

Avie Tevanian: You're firing me from the board?
Don Lucas: I'm asking you...
Avie Tevanian: Is that what your gut's says you should do?
Don Lucas: ...to resign tonight! Tonight.
Avie Tevanian: Fine. Just... start asking questions. She is lying to you.

Ian Gibbons: So, how was Nashville?
Edmond Ku: I can't talk about it. It's... you know, NDA.
Ian Gibbons: What? Oh, this is terrible. Suddenly, everyone's on a need-to-know basis, well I need to know. I mean, my whole job is needing to know.

Edmond Ku: Is this because of what happened in Nashville?
Elizabeth Holmes: .... Nashville was an inspiring step forward. Are we done?

Elizabeth Holmes: You can't just show up at my office. You told them that you were a consultant?
Sunny Balwani: Do you want to talk about that, or the fact you're ten years away from the promises you made to the board?

Elizabeth Holmes: What is that?
Sunny Balwani: It's green juice. I bought it for you. It's healthy. If you're going to work 20 hours a day, you need to eat healthier.

Elizabeth Holmes: I think it needs a name.
Rakesh Dewan: How about Glue Bot?
Elizabeth Holmes: Edison. I'm calling it the Edison. And this is the direction that we're going in.

Ana Arriola: You know, I was trying to remember what it was I saw in you, why I came here, and... I don't know, I think I thought you were like me somehow. An outsider.
Elizabeth Holmes: I am. That's why I have to fight to keep my job.
Ana Arriola: No. That's why you have to care more. I only came here because I thought we were helping people.
Elizabeth Holmes: I can't help anybody if I don't have a company.

Elizabeth Holmes: What was your dream as a child?
Marcy: As a child? No, I don't think I had any dreams as a child.
Elizabeth Holmes: That sounds nice...
Marcy: What does?
Elizabeth Holmes: Not knowing what you wanna do with your life.
Marcy: It's not nice, it's scary.
Elizabeth Holmes: Why are you scared? You can do anything. Anything that you want.
Marcy: Thank... you?
Elizabeth Holmes: Because it... it doesn't really matter. Right? Nothing you do will matter because you don't really care. I mean, you... you have no ambition. You don't wanna do anything important. You're just a person.

Don Lucas: Ah, Elizabeth. You are here because we, collectively, have lost confidence in your ability to continue on as CEO of this company. You have misrepresented the revenue stream. You have been unable to manage research and development. You have continuously, time after time, missed deadlines, resulting in the withdrawal of our contracts from pharmaceutical companies, including, we just found out, Pfizer. ... Your design team has resigned. And, last but not least, this... this man, Richard Fuisz, has filed a competing patent. This is a mess... I mean, you have to understand where we're coming from here. You need adult supervision.

Elizabeth Holmes: You're right. I am in over my head. I'm just a girl who had a dream to change the world, and I just didn't realize how hard it was gonna be. I need help. You're absolutely right. I need adult supervision...

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Duck and Cover

The Wire 2×8

Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa: Let me ask you something important. You like fake tits? I can't decide... Thus far, I'm undecided on fake tits.

A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: You all cannot spell for 'shit.'
Det. Lester Freamon: Would we be police if we could?

Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka: How come they don't fly away?
Mr. Diz: His wings are clipped.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: The thing of it is, Lieutenant... Jimmy McNulty, when he ain't policing... he's a picture postcard of a drunken, self-destructive fuck-up. And when he is policing... he's pretty much the same motherfucker. But on a good case, he's running in front of the pack. That's as close as the man comes to being right.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: I need McNulty on this detail.
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Jesus! When I said anything, I meant I'd let you have a kiss, feel my tits or something, you know? But not this.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: ... What?!
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Takes a whore to catch a whore.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What the fuck did I do?

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: What's he waiting on?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Getting himself all steeled up to tell some tales... Lying to the wife's easy. It's looking your kid in the eye that's the hard part.

The Greek: It's a new world, Frank. You should go out and spend some money on something you can touch - a new car, a new coat... It's why we get up in the morning, huh?

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Lecture Circuit: Part 2

The Office 5×15

Pam Beesly: That was weird, huh?.. It's all part of the presentation. It was confusing, right? Because confusing situations happen to us all the time in our jobs... I'm just trying to bridge the gap between what just happened and the fact that I'm going to be doing the rest of the presentation... Sales is like a box of chocolates. You never know which vendor you're gonna get... Forrest Gump.

Pam Beesly: Blazer, freckles, penguin, K. D. Lang, Holly's boyfriend. These mnemonic devices help to make a connection, and then also to help you memorize names... I have a chainsaw! Cutting down the competition.

Oscar Martinez: This is getting weird...
Kevin Malone: Is she cleaning the cat with her tongue?

Angela Martin: Has this been on the entire time?
Oscar Martinez: I have no idea.
Kevin Malone: I was looking at pictures of food on my computer.

Jim Halpert: I'm not writing "horse hunt." I don't even know what that means.
Dwight Schrute: It's in the name!
Jim Halpert: Okay, so far, our ideal party consists of beer, fights to the death, cupcakes, blood pudding, blood, touch football, mating, charades and, yes, horse hunting.
Dwight Schrute: You're right. Forget horse hunting. It's stupid.

Jim Halpert: Look, is there a birthday that you remember that you loved?
Dwight Schrute: Here's one. It was dark, warm, wet. A sudden burst of light, an intense pressure like I'd never felt before. Father dressed in white pulls me forward, mother bites the cord--
Jim Halpert: Okay, stop. Forever stop that story. That's disgusting and it doesn't count. So give me another one.
Dwight Schrute: Schrutes don't celebrate birthdays, idiot. It started as a Depression-era practicality and then moved on to an awesome tradition that I look forward to every year.

Kevin Malone: TV. Watching TV at work is really cool.
Stanley Hudson: Pick a nap. Nothing good is on right now.

Kelly Kapoor: You know what? I have been watching TV all week. I choose nap.
Jim Halpert: All right. Okay, nap it is.
Dwight Schrute: Everyone out! Get out. We're going to be eating cake at our desks.

Dwight Schrute: Okay. You've got one hour.
Kelly Kapoor: ..... I'm too excited to sleep.

Dwight Schrute: Birthday time is over. Now go make up for all the work you missed when you were taking your nap.

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Satori

The Dropout 1×2

Ian Gibbons: Did you know that chemotherapy was discovered when two sadistic pharmacologists decided to inject mice with mustard gas?

Elizabeth Holmes: What would you attempt to do... if you knew you could not fail?

Elizabeth Holmes: Um, everyone, could you gather briefly? Quickly. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Rakesh Dewan: I'd wrestle an alligator.

Elizabeth Holmes: I've already raised six million dollars from my parents, and my family, and...
Channing Robertson: Look, I'm sorry, but...
Elizabeth Holmes: ...everybody that I know.

Elizabeth Holmes: Is that your new sword?
Sunny Balwani: Katana. Look at it. It's fucking ancient. Ask Larry Ellison about katanas, he loves Japan.

Sunny Balwani: How are you on the numbers?
Elizabeth Holmes: Uh, most blood tests are priced too high. We offer a low-cost alternative with the possibility to scale up.
Sunny Balwani: Don't talk about saving the world.
Elizabeth Holmes: I'm not gonna talk about saving the world.
Sunny Balwani: Don't use your giddy voice. Don't say "awesome..." You're beautiful. But you don't want to be too beautiful. They won't take you seriously.

Larry Ellison: Have you heard of Satori?
— Watch out. Larry loves to talk about all this Japanese stuff.
Larry Ellison: Yeah, I got the biggest tea garden in North America. Brought the structures in from Japan and added about 500 trees but... But Satori is Buddhist enlightenment. It's that moment where you can look inside yourself and know just who you are. You experienced Satori?

Elizabeth Holmes: So, what I'd really like to talk to you about is the seven-billion-dollar blood testing industry.
Larry Ellison: Yeah, Don took me through it, but let me ask you again. Are you a leader? Because if you want this, you really have to dedicate yourself to it. You have to be aggressive, start firing people, have you... have you fired anybody yet?
Elizabeth Holmes: Not yet.
Larry Ellison: Well, then you gotta fight. That's what it takes to be a CEO. That's what it takes to run a billion-dollar company. Is that what you really want?
Elizabeth Holmes: Yes!
Larry Ellison: Good! Then let's stop fucking around.

Elizabeth Holmes: We're working on a prototype. And we're hoping to get a meeting with a pharma company like Novartis.
Larry Ellison: And? What's stopping you?
Elizabeth Holmes: I'm having a hard time getting them to talk to me.
Larry Ellison: Then you gotta hustle. Oracle's first contract. Do you remember?.. The software was still a mess. And you know what I said? I said nothing. Nothing. GTFM. "Get the fuckin' money." "Get the fuckin' money." Do you get the fuckin' money?

Edmond Ku: You want me to ask people to work 24 hours a day? You know, Elizabeth, they have families, they have lives. They'll... They'll burn out, they'll quit.
Elizabeth Holmes: But people are replaceable. If you can't do this, I'm gonna start firing people.

Edmond Ku: Uh... You know, Elizabeth put her name down for our patent applications as one of the inventors. Did she work on the inventions?
Ian Gibbons: Not in any scientific way.

Elizabeth Holmes: I haven't announced this yet, but our series B round closed at a 165 million dollars. So, here's to Don Lucas and Larry Ellison! And let's party!

Rakesh Dewan: Calm down. Why are you breathing so hard? Just relax. I mean, it’s going to work. It just didn’t that day. I didn't know what to do. When we get the box to work, we’re not even gonna remember this. We’ll be geniuses and you’ll be able to tell this story at a conference wearing flip-flops. This is how it works. Just dance, Edmond.

Elizabeth Holmes: I would have graduated this year...
Sunny Balwani: Now you're a fucking millionaire.
Elizabeth Holmes: Yes!
Sunny Balwani: Fuck everyone!
Elizabeth Holmes: Whoo-hoo! I’m gonna change the world!

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Backwash

The Wire 2×7

Florist: We can do that in white, or red, or pink carnations.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Pink?
Florist: Your boy was too fierce for the pink?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: No, he wasn't all that. But when you stand with a nigger, you stand with him to the end otherwise... otherwise you ain't nothing.

Florist: How your boy fall?
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Hung himself. Over at The Cut, strung himself up. Judge ran wild on his ass, gave him 20. I guess he couldn't handle all them years, you know? It's a weak-ass nigger when you think about it. But it ain't no reason to drag his name down no further, you know?

Sgt. Jay Landsman: You cloned a what?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: A computer.
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: We can watch how the cargo comes off the ship in real time, try to follow the contraband, see where it leads.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: We're running a 25-murder-a-month MASH Unit here and you guys wanna slow things down a bit and do a bit of brain surgery. If Rawls comes walking through here and sees the two of you hunched over playing video games on 14 open murders, he's gonna fuckin' blow!

Nick Sobotka: Hey, Frog. Come here... No, seriously. Come here... First of all, and I don't know how to tell you this without hurting you deeply. First of all, you happen to be white. I'm talking raised-on-Rappolla-Street white, where your mama used to drag you to St. Casimir's just like all the other little pisspants on the block. Second, I'm also white. Not, hang-on-the-corner-don't-give-a-fuck white but Locust-Point-IBS-Local-47 white. I don't work without no fucking contract and I don't stand around listening to horseshit excuses like my cousin Ziggy, ... You go in your pocket, come up with 500 in advance and the 210 that you owe to Zig, you can work my package.

Det. Ellis Carver: We need a bug.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Something that can stand up to the pressures of the modern urban crime environment.

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Hey, Carver. Isn't technology the fucking bomb, huh?

Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: What if they're not sneaking anything off this time? What then?
Det. Lester Freamon: Tragically, you will have wasted another day in a life you've already misspent in the service of the city of Baltimore.

A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: You need to do better for a wiretap. Read your annotated code. Wiretap Statute, Subsection 10, 406 designates crimes where telephone calls can be intercepted in the great state of Maryland. Prostitution? Uh-uh.
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: You mean, you can tap a guy's phone if he's selling drugs but not if he's selling women?
A.S.A. Rhonda Pearlman: That's the law.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: We need to bring in the Lieutenant, his detail and all the manpower and toys that go with it. And Daniels listens when you talk. You got the smell of wisdom on you, brother. Now, look. We all got roles to play.
Det. Lester Freamon: What's your role?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick.
Det. Lester Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.v Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: OK, then. I ain't all that humble.

Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa: Don't worry, kid, you're still on the clock.

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: It just couldn't stand up to the modern urban crime environment, man.

Elena McNulty: I don't trust you. I can care about you and I can want us to be friends and if you give me enough time, Jimmy, maybe I will actually want you to be happy. But how the hell am I supposed to trust you?

Lt. Cedric Daniels: I love the job, Marla. I can't help it.
Marla Daniels: The job doesn't love you.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: You know what I love? The mind that's always a step ahead of me, the person who never stops thinking it through. That's what I fell in love with first.
Marla Daniels: Do you know what I fell in love with first? Do you? Your ambition. Where did that man go?

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God's Own Country (2017)

John Saxby: You half-Paki or summat?
Gheorghe Ionescu: Pardon? Er, no, I am from Romania.
John Saxby: Gypsy.
Gheorghe Ionescu: Please don't call me that.

John Saxby: I told you, didn't I? Shitehole. Bet you wish you'd stayed in Romania.

John Saxby: What?
Gheorghe Ionescu: Freak.
John Saxby: Faggot.
Gheorghe Ionescu: Fuck off. Faggot.

Gheorghe Ionescu: Don't you want to speak to the doctor?... John?
John Saxby: What if they say summat I don't wanna hear?

John Saxby: How do you say 'farm'?
Gheorghe Ionescu: Ferma.
John Saxby: How do you say 'sheep'?
Gheorghe Ionescu: Oaie.
John Saxby: How do you say... cock?
Gheorghe Ionescu: Cock.

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All Prologue

The Wire 2×6

Guard: Mars is the god of war, right?
Omar Little: Planet, too.
Guard: I know it's a planet. But the clue is "Greek god of war."
Omar Little: Ares. Greeks called him Ares. Same dude, different name, is all.
Guard: Ares fits. Thanks.
Omar Little: It's all good. See, back in middle school and all, I used to love them myths. That stuff was deep. Truly.

State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: And what is your occupation?
Omar Little: Occupation?
State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: What exactly do you do for a living, Mr. Little?
Omar Little: I rip and run.
State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: You...
Omar Little: I robs drug dealers.

State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: And exactly how long has this been your occupation, Mr. Little?
Omar Little: I don't know exactly. I venture to say maybe about eight or nine years.
State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?
Omar Little: Day at a time, I suppose.

Det. Ellis Carver: Yo, I'm Thomas. You want a coffee?
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Listen, I was gonna ask her for her panties to make some soup with, but I was afraid she'd take it the wrong way.

Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos: Niko... Eton is my friend. It's good to have friends meet, no?
Nick Sobotka: Eton, huh? That's from the Greek, meaning what?
Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos: No Greek. Israeli.
Nick Sobotka: Oh. Yeah? 'Cause you look Greek, no offense. Either way, I mean...

Maurice 'Maury' Levy: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city! You are a parasite who leeches off--
Omar Little: Just like you, man.
Maurice 'Maury' Levy: Excuse me?! What?
Omar Little: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?

Lt. Cedric Daniels: So what's the plan?
Det. Lester Freamon: The database on this computer has records for every ship that berthed at Patapsco over the last two years. We gotta go back and find what other cans might've disappeared like that. See if there's a pattern.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: How many ships we talking about?
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: Hundreds.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: It ain't like I got a prayer of bringing this case in otherwise.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You really see him shoot the man?
Omar Little: You really asking?

D'Angelo Barksdale: [Fitzgerald]'s saying that the past is always with us. And where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it, all this shit matters. I mean, that's what I thought he meant. ... Like at the end of the book, you know? Boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right? You can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. It don't matter some fool say he different. The only thing that make you different is what you do or what you go through.
     Like, you know, like all them books in his library. Now, he fronting with all them books, but if we pull one down off the shelf, ain't none of the pages ever been opened. He got all them books and he ain't read near one of them. Gatsby, he was who he was and he did what he did, and 'cause he wasn't ready to get real with the story, that shit caught up to him. I think, anyway.

Elena McNulty: Just wine, huh?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm not drinking much anymore.
Elena McNulty: No Jameson's? Maybe a quick fuck with the waitress, then.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: OK, I deserve that one, too, even though I'm not doing much of that anymore either. Anything else?
Elena McNulty: I'm sorry. I don't know where it still comes from. It's been a year.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You deserve to be angry. What's the point, though?
Elena McNulty: How's work?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: What, so we talk about everything in my life that pisses you off? Drinking, women, the work?
Elena McNulty: Just trying to make conversation.

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Lecture Circuit: Part 1

The Office 5×14

Jim Halpert: This morning, the phone guy comes in and he shows Michael that our phones have a PA function. And then he just left.
Michael Scott: This is your captain speaking. The office will be flying at an altitude of two stories. Look out your left-hand window and you will see Vance Refrigeration...

Michael Scott: Every magician has a hot assistant and every rock star has a roadie and Pam is my hot roadie.

Pam Beesly: Yeah, I love being on the road, but I especially love the time and a half pay, 24 hours a day for three days. 'Cause I have a mortgage now. Got to bring home the bucks.
Michael Scott: No, don't say "bucks." It's not ladylike.

Jim Halpert: Hi, Kelly.
Kelly Kapoor: Screw you.
Dwight Schrute: Excuse me. That is no way to address a superior!
Kelly Kapoor: Oh, yeah? Screw you, too.

Michael Scott: Don't be nervous. Just picture her naked.
Pam Beesly: Stop it.
Michael Scott: That's what I do. Steal my trick.

Michael Scott: Wow. Oh, man. My head just exploded. Whoo! Thank God for everybody, right? Wow, you're huge! That's incredible. I... God, sorry, sorry. My head is... I'm just... I'm trying to figure out the last time that you and Jim had sex, and...
Karen Filippelli: Let's just get this over with, shall we?
Michael Scott: Okay. Mmm-hmm. Ten? Ten months?

Jim Halpert: Why have you chosen brown and gray balloons?
Dwight Schrute: They match the carpet.
Jim Halpert: What is that?
Dwight Schrute: "It is your birthday," period. It's a statement of fact.
Jim Halpert: Not even an exclamation point?
Dwight Schrute: This is more professional. It's not like she discovered a cure for cancer.

Dwight Schrute: Have you collected the money from everyone?
Jim Halpert: I am working on it.
Dwight Schrute: How much do you have?
Jim Halpert: $6.
Dwight Schrute: That's how much you and I contributed! Damn it, Jim!

Michael Scott: I don't know you. But I need to know you in order to sell to you. That is why I've asked you to go around and tell me your names. I have an amazing mnemonic device by which I have now memorized all of your names. Shirty, mole, lazy eye, Mexico, baldy, sugar boobs, black woman. I have taken a unique part of who you are and I have used that to memorize your name.

Michael Scott: Baldy, your head is bald, it is hairless, it is shiny, it is reflective, like a mirror. "M," your name is Mark.
Mark: Yes.
Michael Scott: Got it. It works!
Karen Filippelli: Uh, it's very insulting.
Michael Scott: But it works.

Michael Scott: You remember Holly? She used to work for HR.
Pam Beesly: No, remind me.
Michael Scott: Blonde hair, nice boobs. Not too big, not too small.
Pam Beesly: Perfect boobs. Of course I remember Holly.

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Stress Relief

The Office 5×13

Dwight Schrute: Last week, I gave a fire safety talk, and nobody paid any attention. It's my own fault for using PowerPoint. PowerPoint is boring. People learn in lots of different ways, but experience is the best teacher.

Dwight Schrute: Today, smoking is going to save lives...

Michael Scott: Okay, we're trapped. Everyone for himself!

Michael Scott: No, no, no, no, you will not die! Stanley! Stanley! You will not die! Stanley! Stanley! Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!

David Wallace: How could you possibly think this is a good idea?
Dwight Schrute: A lot of ideas were not appreciated in their time. Electricity...
Michael Scott: Shampoo...

Dwight Schrute: I just want to say, for the record, I did not kill anyone. Stanley was attacked by his own heart.

Dwight Schrute: Well, I guess we papered over that pretty nicely. Always amuses me when corporate thinks they can make some big change with a 20-minute meeting in some fancy high rise.

Michael Scott: Nobody should have to go to work thinking, "Oh, this is the place that I might die today." That's what a hospital's for. An office is for not dying. An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. To... An office is a place where dreams come true.

Michael Scott: Don't excite him. Don't make him excitable. Welcome back, Stanley.

Michael Scott: You know who I really think should go? Stanley.
Stanley Hudson: Oh, I don't know...
Phyllis Lapin: It's not a good idea, Michael. He needs to rest.
Michael Scott: No rest for the sick. We are not always going to be there to coddle your heart back when it disappears to be working. What are you going to do if you're by yourself and your heart stops?
Stanley Hudson: I would die.
Michael Scott: And you're okay with that?
Stanley Hudson: I'm okay with the logic of it.

Stanley Hudson: Yes, I had a heart attack. I would quit, but I'm too old to find another job. And I don't have enough saved to retire. I feel like I'm working in my own casket.

Michael Scott: Okay, okay, I'll show them. Here we go. All right.
Rose: So assessing the situation. Are they breathing?
Michael Scott: No, Rose. They are not breathing. And they have no arms or legs.
Rose: No, that's not part of it.
Michael Scott: Where are they? You know what? If we come across somebody with no arms or legs, do we bother resuscitating them? I mean, what kind of quality of life do we have there?

Pam Beesly: We don't normally download films illegally because we're honest, hard-working people.
Jim Halpert: And we don't know how.
Pam Beesly: But Andy does, so we have to watch it with him.
Jim Halpert: Punishment fits the crime.

Michael Scott: Corporate has given Dwight two strikes. ... So, as a disciplinary measure, he is going to have to issue a formal apology. Dwight, have you prepared your statement of regret?
Dwight Schrute: I have.
Michael Scott: Let's hear it.
Dwight Schrute: ... I state my regret.
Jim Halpert: You couldn't have memorized that?
Dwight Schrute: I could not because I do not feel it.

Dwight Schrute: Okay, everyone, I'm going to need you to sign this statement of regret as an acknowledgment that you heard it. Okay? Everyone come on up here. It's not a big deal.
Phyllis Lapin: It is a big deal. You almost killed Stanley.
Dwight Schrute: Yeah, right. I filled him full of butter and sugar for 50 years and forced him not to exercise. Now take a lesson from Stanley and jog on up here and sign this. Okay? Make a line. Just form a line right here. Sign it! Sign it now!

Michael Scott: Everybody sit on the floor, Indian-style like me... My God, if you're wearing a dress, please keep your knees together, nobody wants to see that.

Michael Scott: So what kind of ice cream do you want? Yell it out.
Meredith Palmer: Chunky Monkey!
Michael Scott: Too expensive.
Stanley Hudson: Chocolate.
Michael Scott: Racism is dead, Stanley. You can have any kind of ice cream you want. What do you want?

Michael Scott: Remember when people used to say "boss" when they were describing something that was really cool? Like, "Those shoulder pads are really boss, man." "Look at that perm. That perm is so boss." It's what made me want to become a boss. And I looked so good in a perm and shoulder pads. But now boss is just slang for "jerk in charge."

Michael Scott: Okay, everybody, I figured it out. The reason that you are all so stressed around me is that you are too intimidated to tell me what you really think. You are keeping these feelings inside and that is causing stress. So, what is the solution? Solution is honesty, laughter and comedy. In short...
Kelly Kapoor: A vacation.
Michael Scott: What? No. No. I'm talking about a roast of Michael Scott.

Michael Scott: It's not offensive during a roast. Anything goes. And I want you guys to really get cracking on this. I want you to take me down. Don't hold back. I want you to really make fun of anything about me. It could be my race, could be the fact that I'm so fit, or I'm a womanizer, fair game. Whatever. I don't want to write your stuff for you, but I just want it to be good.

Michael Scott: Welcome to the roast of Mr. Michael Scott. If you are here for the Grabowski wedding, it is the second door on the left.

Dwight Schrute: What I hate about you, you really suck as a boss. You're the laziest, jerkiest and you're dumber than an apple sauce. We're stuck listening to you all day. Stanley tried to die just to get away.

Michael Scott: You know, sometimes to get perspective, I like to think about a spaceman on a star incredibly far away, and our problems don't matter to him because we're just a distant point of light. But he feels sorry for me because he has an incredibly powerful microscope and he can see my face... I'm okay-- No, I'm not.

Michael Scott: Well, I wrote them down so I wouldn't forget... Jim, you're 6'11" and you weigh 90 pounds. Gumby has a better body than you. Boom. Roasted. Dwight, you're a kiss-ass. Boom. Roasted. Pam, you failed art school. Boom. Roasted. Meredith, you've slept with so many guys you're starting to look like one. Boom. Roasted. Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke and a dumb joke. Boom. Roasted. Creed, your teeth called, your breath stinks. Boom. Roasted. Angela, where's Angela? Well, there you are. I didn't see you behind that grain of rice. Boom. Roasted. Stanley, you crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks. Boom. Roasted. Oscar, you are... Oscar, you're gay. Andy, Cornell called, they think you suck and you're gayer than Oscar. Boom. Roasted. Boom. Roasted. All right. All right, everybody. You know I kid. You know I kid. You guys are the reason that I went into the paper business. So, good night, God bless. God bless America. And get home safe.

Michael Scott: They say that laughter is the best medicine, so, Stanley, you can throw away those pills. You are cured... Actually, better hold on to the pills, just in case.

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Undertow

The Wire 2×5

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Here. Stick that on that thing there, will you?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: The cleat? Ain't you know nothing?.. Look at you, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but something's way the fuck wrong with this picture. What the hell is that?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: A Baltimore knot.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Baltimore knot? What the hell is a Baltimore knot?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I don't know, but it's never the same thing twice.

Det. Lester Freamon: Colonel, respectfully, did you just fuck me over, without giving me even half a chance to clear this case?
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Let's be clear, Detective. When I fuck you over, you'll know it. You'll be so goddamn certain, you won't need to ask the question. And you, Detective Moreland, are now all alone with 14 red names. How's it feel?

Det. Lester Freamon: What's happening? Same fuck-ups in the same shit detail, working out of the same shithouse kind of office. You people lack for personal growth.

Russell 'Stringer' Bell: What are the options when you got an inferior product in an aggressive marketplace?
Mr. Lucas: If you have a large share of the market, you can buy up the competition.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: And if you don't?
Mr. Lucas: Reduce price to increase market share.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: That assumes low overhead.
Mr. Lucas: Of course, otherwise, you operate at a loss. And worse, as your prices drop, your product eventually loses consumer credibility. You know, the new CEO of WorldCom was faced with this very problem. The company was linked to one of the largest fraud cases in history. So he proposed...
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: To change the name?
Mr. Lucas: Exactly.

Frank Sobotka: You don't need a subpoena to see our records no more. Our books were open to the Justice Department for eight years. We're here through Bobby Kennedy, Tricky Dick Nixon, Ronnie "The Union Buster" Reagan, and half a dozen other sons of bitches. We'll be here through your weak bullshit, no problem!

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: You telling me you never had a CI down there, right?
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: A CI?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: An informant... You ain't got no informants on the dock? Someone you could go to on this? Someone you got a history with?
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: Oh.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: They say a police is only as good as his informants. Meaning, we ain't about much.

Frank Sobotka: I'm done. I'm out. I need nothing more to do with you people. I don't need the trouble or the money. I got a union to run.

Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos: ... They used to make steel there, no? Smoke from the stacks...

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Running with Wolves

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan 3×3

Mike November: So you have thought it through.
Jack Ryan: Yes, I have.
Mike November: Then I'm in. I got your back. Just hope we don't die.
Jack Ryan: Me, too.

Petr: My father was a soldier, a hardened man. The only time I saw him cry was when the Wall fell. Because he knew it was over. He never had the illusion that the Soviet Union was without fault, but Mother Russia was everything to him. When it collapsed, everything he fought for no longer had meaning. When I asked him why he was crying, he said, "We were once the most feared nation on Earth. We were the monster that kept the rest of the world up at night." Now, we wage cyber wars. We disrupt and we inconvenience. Oh, it's clever and cost-effective, but war without cost is meaningless. Without cost, we have no identity.

Jack Ryan: You all right?
Mike November: I just hate train stations. Watch any movie, nothing good ever happens in a train station.

President Alena Kovac: He couldn't be a part of this.
Jim Greer: Yeah, well, I know it's hard, but we have to examine every angle, consider every possibility. Especially the one that's staring us right in our face.

Luka Gocharov: Yuri knew it was not us. It was not Russia, but...
Jack Ryan: Russian.
Luka Gocharov: A rogue faction. One I am determined to unmask.
Jack Ryan: What do they want?
Luka Gocharov: To restore the Soviet Union.

Jack Ryan: The United States and Russia are being baited into a war, and right now, we're the only ones standing in the way.

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Lock and Key

Peaky Blinders 6×6

Lizzie: You ARE cursed, Tommy. Never to understand the limits that other people will accept. Never to be allowed in where everybody else is. A curse never to be lifted.

Charlie: Mum, I'll come with you. I'd rather be with you. Wherever it is. You're not my mum... but you're more my mum than he's my dad. He's never here.

Tommy: Charlie, you can take him, eh? They have stables at this new place. After a while, he'll... He'll listen to you. He'll forget about Ruby. That's how horses are.

Charlie: Dad... Where will you go?

Uncle Charlie: Arthur tells me when they were taking care of some business at the betting shop, you ran away.
Duke: It was unfair.
Uncle Charlie: Fairness is not a soldier's concern. You do what you do.
Duke: I already have done. Fair and square. I have killed a man.
Uncle Charlie: Tommy's always right...

Uncle Charlie: Just one more thing we need to know about you... Can you keep a secret?

Arthur: You don't need anything, do you?
Tommy: No, I don't need anything. I don't need anything. How long have we been dead for, eh? You and me, how long? At least now I'll have a certificate. Wherever it is, I'll get the drinks in and I'll wait for you.

Tommy: When everyone is taken care of financially, I will take myself away. On my own. I don't want anyone... anyone who may or may not love me... to have to see me crawl... or grow insane and helpless. It would be a cruelty to me and to them. By the time people know the truth, I will be gone.

Tommy: ... £5 million!
Arthur: Oh, five fucking million?
Tommy: Which I will share among the Shelby family. And that will be my legacy. Instead of me, there will be money. Because for most of the people who are close to me, that is what I am! Fucking money. That is my agency.

Tommy: Oh, and, Finn, by the way, please explain to, erm, what's her name?
Finn: Mary.
Tommy: Mary?
Finn: Yes.
Tommy: Is it Mary? Please explain to Mary that you are a Shelby. It says it here on the back of your watch... Have a look, Shelby. Look. This means you own the watch, the watch doesn't own you. The clock strikes six when you fucking tell it to. Have a whiskey. Enjoy the party, boys.

Michael: Do you want a fucking bloodbath, Gina? I know about the new boy. I've decided that the illegitimate son is not a threat. My decision. Only Arthur.
Gina: Michael, baby... everything's been agreed. Everybody wants the same things.

Gina: Deep down, Arthur and Tommy want to be dead anyway. On Sunday, we'll just... give them what they want.

Tommy: And to answer your question... No. No, I'm not upset that my wife left me. And, yeah, if you want to fuck, I'll fuck. But you'll have to cross the floor cos I refuse to fuck on Tory benches.

Oswald Mosley: Mr Shelby. I was going to have this delivered to you, but I decided to bring it in person. It's an invitation to mine and Diana's wedding. It's in Berlin. We're going to get married in the presence of the Fuhrer himself.

Michael: My name is not fucking Mickey, there is no fucking God, and Tommy will be here.

Finn: Why don't you turn the fucking lights on, eh?
Duke: Well, there's no longer any power in the house of Thomas Shelby.

Duke: We can do whatever we want in this house. It's got a death sentence.

O'Donnell: It's just a pity you didn't have the guts to shoot him face to face.
Michael: My mother was a Gypsy. She saw the future. She always said it won't be a bullet that'll kill Tommy Shelby.

Duke: You are no longer a member of this Shelby family. By order of the Peaky fucking Blinders.

Arthur: Her name was Elizabeth Gray. She was my Aunt Polly. My Aunt Polly.
Laura McKee: Vengeance is for the Lord...
Arthur: Not in Small Heath, it ain't.

Michael: You killed her.
Tommy: Polly made her own choices, Michael.
Michael: No... No-one close to you makes a choice without your opinion, Tom. Not Arthur, not me, not Ada. We can't escape you. Your lethal hand is always on our shoulders.

Michael: Mum... it's done. It's over. And may God forgive me.

Alfie: All right, Tommy? How are you keeping?
Tommy: You know, Alfie... so many people, so many times going to so much trouble to kill me. I'm fucking dying anyway.
Alfie: We're all dying anyway.
Tommy: No. Not a bullet, not a bomb, not a knife.
Alfie: Is it clap? Is it clap?
Tommy: No, not even that noble.

Alfie: Are you saying you're just going to die in your bed?
Tommy: I'm not going to die in bed, Alfie. Who fucking dies in bed?
Alfie: Good people die in their bed, Tommy. Good people.
Tommy: Good people, eh?
Alfie: Hmm.
Tommy: Good people... And yet here we are, Alfie, after all this time, just you and me.

Tommy: Well, Alfie, your opera is complete. Shall we go and witness the final act?

Tommy: Well, at least I can say that, er... I am one of those rare politicians who actually makes good on his promises. Country estate, requisitioned to make way for houses for working people. I improved my own home with good intentions and 1,500lb of dynamite.

Tommy: I'd like to raise a toast. A simple toast. To family... Sometimes it is shelter from the storm. Sometimes it is the storm itself.

Ada: Tommy, you tell me right now, where are you going?
Tommy: You have to carry the bucket on your own this time, Ada.
Ada: Tommy, you come to me with everything. You always come to me.
Tommy: Not this time. Not this one, sister.

Tommy: In the bleak midwinter...

Tommy: I'm guessing you people all decided that the only person who could ever kill Tommy Shelby is Tommy Shelby himself.

Tommy: The eleventh hour. Armistice. Peace at last. Peace at last...

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Hard Cases

The Wire 2×4

Avon Barksdale: It ain't about what happened, you understand? It's about using what happened to our advantage. Play or you gonna get played.

Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: Good news is I got no problem with anyone on your list. Except McNulty. No McNulty. Nothing that even resembles the son of a bitch.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: That bad, huh?
Deputy Commissioner for Operations William A. Rawls: He quits or he drowns. That's the only two things get him off the fucking boat, so help me God.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: Look, if you want, I could use you inside, like we did Prez last year.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: I'll tell your wife if you tell mine.

Johnny Weeks: I don't know, Bubs. I mean... if you go rolling over rocks, then you're gonna get bit by a snake, right?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Gotta pay that tax, Johnny. I mean, you got to give a working police his due.

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Ω RIP Lance Reddick (Lieutenant Cedric Daniels)

I'm in a Hurry

The Dropout 1×1

Interviewer: Can you say the company name?
Elizabeth Holmes: Theranos.
Interviewer: I thought it was Therah-nos.
Elizabeth Holmes: No, Theranos. It's a mix between "therapy" and "diagnosis".
Interviewer: Why not Theranosis?
Elizabeth Holmes: Because the name is Theranos. Actually, can we cut that part?

Interviewer: Some rapid-fire questions. We call them Makers Minute. So, you are America's youngest female self-made billionaire. That's pretty cool.
Elizabeth Holmes: ... Yes.
Interviewer: If you are what you eat, what are you?
Elizabeth Holmes: ... Green juice.
Interviewer: Favorite place to visit.
Elizabeth Holmes: ... Uh, my office.
Interviewer: Best word to describe you.
Elizabeth Holmes: ... Mission-oriented.

Elizabeth Holmes: I'm going to drop out.
Chris Holmes: You're gonna do what?
Noel Holmes: No. No!
Elizabeth Holmes: Steve Jobs dropped out. Bill Gates dropped out. Michael Dell, Paul Allen. Elon Musk...
Noel Holmes: Who's Paul Allen?
Chris Holmes: He's the other Microsoft guy--
Noel Holmes: I don't care.

Elizabeth Holmes: I think I wanna focus on the biomedical industry. Because... I wanna help people... and I wanna be a billionaire. Like Steve Jobs.
Richard Fuisz: You know what you want.
Elizabeth Holmes: I do.

Moderator: You've served on boards of companies. I mean, why are you also a professor?
Professor: Because, honestly, Standford is the most exciting place to be right now. And it's 2002, so just imagine what tech is gonna be able to do in 2022, and it's gonna be up to you guys...

Elizabeth Holmes: I wanna start a company, and I'd like you to be a founding member. I don't wanna wait. David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo while they were in your program, you must have invested.
Channing Robertson: Actually, they asked me and I said, "No." I wish I could take that one back...

Dr. Phyllis Gardner: If you think that people want a patch to diagnose them and then put medicine directly into their skin, then you've never met a sick person before. People go to school for a very long time to understand how to diagnose patients. You can't get a diagnosis from a patch because human beings aren't machines.
Elizabeth Holmes: But doctors make mistakes. And this would be based on data, so...
Dr. Phyllis Gardner: Well, data isn't everything. Um, people your age need to remember that machines make mistakes too, especially when humans are operating them.
Elizabeth Holmes: Yeah, but...
Dr. Phyllis Gardner: It's... it's fine. It's, uh, nothing personal. You had an idea. It's not gonna work, so you just... you keep learning. Keep trying.

Dr. Phyllis Gardner: I'm gonna be heading home and very nice to meet you.
Elizabeth Holmes: "Do or do not. There is no try."
Dr. Phyllis Gardner: What?
Elizabeth Holmes: That's Yoda from Star Wars.

Dr. Phyllis Gardner: So you've had a couple of classes, maybe a seminar or two, and now you think you know enough to start a company?
Elizabeth Holmes: I just thought as... as a woman, you...
Dr. Phyllis Gardner: Well, as a woman, let me explain something to you. You don't get to skip any steps. You have to do the work. Your work, other people's work. You have to do so much work, that they have to admit that you did it. Nobody helped you. You have to take away all their excuses. And then if you get anything, anything wrong, they'll destroy you, and they'll be so happy to do it, so no, as a woman, I can't help you right now.

Dr. Phyllis Gardner: And just... one other thing. Don't ever quote Yoda to anybody ever again. Science is trying. That's all that it is. You only get to really do something when you've been trying for so long that doing doesn't even seem possible anymore. So, science is real. Yoda is a fictional green character who apparently knows everything in the universe, except for syntax and grammar.

Dr. Phyllis Gardner: I'm sorry, your idea's impossible, but that's the way the world works.
Elizabeth Holmes: The world works in certain ways until a great idea comes along and... and changes everything.
Dr. Phyllis Gardner: Okay, I'm gonna... I'm gonna go, now. My husband is waiting for me with a glass of red wine and a foot massage, and the DVD of My Big Fat Greek Wedding which came in the mail today, so I suggest you find a version of that for yourself.

Noel Holmes: What does this thing even do? It... tests your blood?
Elizabeth Holmes: It's... Mom, you would never have to have a needle ever again...

Investigator: Do you ever recall telling anyone, your patients, your investors, your board, that in fact none of the technology you claimed to have invented was operational? And that the results they received were often inaccurate? Do you recall telling any of these people that your company was endangering their lives by giving them false information about their health?
Elizabeth Holmes: I knew that we made... so many mistakes, but we were... we were trying to... to take this forward, and at that time, we thought that we were doing the right thing.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Black Panther (2018) <<

Ramonda: I think that one day artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.
Shuri: My AI isn't like the movies, mother. It does exactly what I tell it to do.
Ramonda: Yeah, if only children were the same...

Okoye: Small, small girl... I am going to give you two options. You can come to Wakanda, conscious or unconscious.

Shuri: So, now you are keen to hear from a child who scoffs at tradition?
M'Baku: Mm. The world... The world has taken too much from you for you to still be considered a child.

Shuri: How?
N'Jadaka: How is never as important as why, right?

Nakia: I think... You're going to need a suit.

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Hot Shots

The Wire 2×3

Det. Lester Freamon: Negro, you cannot travel halfway around the world and not speak any motherfucking English... English, motherfucker!

— The unwritten rule is that what happens below decks stays below decks.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Got you good, huh?
Lt. Cedric Daniels: You think?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: No, I mean... Well, not really. If Evidence Control's the posting you want, then... Sorry, Lieutenant.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: Officer...
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: Russell.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: I am informed that you are detailed to this case as a liaison with the Port Police. I also understand that you are the only help that your department is sending.
Off. Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell: That's so.
Sgt. Jay Landsman: Although there is some small charm to a woman in uniform, the fact remains we work plain clothes in Homicide. Which is not to say that the clothes need be plain. For you, I would suggest some pantsuits, perhaps muted in color to offset Detective Moreland's pinstriped, lawyerly affectations, and the tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: Rawls is watching on this one. Let's at least pretend we got a fucking clue...
Det. Lester Freamon: Tweedy impertinence?

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