Golda (2023)

Golda Meir: Why do you trust this man?
Zvi Zamir: He knows everything and he says war is coming.
Golda Meir: Yeah, well, of course, war is coming, but when?

Golda Meir: Without Dayan's support, there can be no mobilization and he is unconvinced that the threat is imminent. If he resigns, the government falls. It's that simple. And then the Arabs will most certainly attack.

Golda Meir: I suggest we mobilize 120,000 troops. Better to be safe than sorry, huh?
David 'Dado' Elazar: A hundred and twenty thousand men is not enough.
Moshe Dayan: It is.
David 'Dado' Elazar: It's not.
Moshe Dayan: It is.
David 'Dado' Elazar: It is not. We'll be outnumbered seven to one.
Golda Meir: The decision has been made. One hundred and twenty thousand. Thank you, gentlemen.

David 'Dado' Elazar: Four hours early...

— The Egyptians are shelling across the canal.
— Syrian jets are bombing the Golan.
— The Egyptians have fired a Kelt cruise missile at Tel Aviv.
Golda Meir: I'm not going to get under the table, but don't let me stop you.

Golda Meir: You all have a plan. Go back to your ministries and put it into effect with calm precision. Thank you, gentlemen. Moshe, we place our trust in you.

Golda Meir: We've got trouble with the neighbors again.
Henry Kissinger: I'm sorry to hear that. Uh, could I ask who fired the first shot?

Henry Kissinger: I'll start to apply diplomatic pressure.
Golda Meir: Please do. But be clear on one point. We will keep fighting until every Egyptian soldier has been driven back across the canal. They will gain nothing by force. If they want their land back, they must recognize the sovereign state of Israel.
Henry Kissinger: I understand.
Golda Meir: Thank you, Henry.
Henry Kissinger: Good luck, Golda.

Moshe Dayan: We lost. We lost the north. It's Armageddon. We lost the north. I alerted Dimona. The nuclear weapon. Yes, that's what I did.

Moshe Dayan: This is another Masada, Golda.

Golda Meir: The enemy has tasted blood. There is no reason for them to stop now. This is 1948 again. We are fighting for our lives.

Golda Meir: Sadat got his victory.
Moshe Dayan: Yes.
Golda Meir: But... does he know it?

Golda Meir: If the Arabs defeat us with Soviet weapons, what message does that send to the Free World, Henry?

Golda Meir: So, Arik. You want to cross the canal with 50 tanks and 2,000 men and take on two divisions. I believe that's 600 tanks and 30,000 men. Is that your plan?

Zvi Zamir: The Egyptians will renew their offensive in two days' time. The 4th and the 21st Division will cross the canal and join the attack.
Arik Sharon: If they crossed, Cairo will be undefended. No one could be that stupid.
Zvi Zamir: The Egyptians are about to make a terrible mistake. I suggest we let them make it.
Moshe Dayan: It would seem a ridiculous decision.
Golda Meir: No. I don't think so. Sadat is the first Arab leader to defeat the Jews in battle. So he's feeling euphoric. Invincible. Do you think a few sand dunes along the Suez Canal will seem enough when the gates of Jerusalem are beckoning? Knowing when you've lost is easy. It's knowing when you've won that's hard. Hmm! We'll wait for them to cross. Thank you, gentlemen.

Golda Meir: Arik. You'll get your chance. And for that, they will make you Prime Minister. Just remember, all political careers end in failure.

Moshe Dayan: I think we should think seriously about accepting a ceasefire.
Golda Meir: We are facing an unholy alliance between the Soviets and the Arabs that must be defeated. If our enemies stop fearing us, they will attack again and again and again.

Henry Kissinger: You know, they jammed the communication equipment on my plane.
Golda Meir: Hmm, of course. Those Russians. They brought nothing but misery to the world.
Henry Kissinger: Normally, I would agree with you. Of course, there is Tolstoy.
Golda Meir: Hmm!
Henry Kissinger: And Dostoyevsky.
Golda Meir: Misery on every page.

Henry Kissinger: I think it's important that you remember that I am first an American, second, I am Secretary of State, and third, I am a Jew.
Golda Meir: You forget that in Israel, we read from right to left.

Henry Kissinger: The Saudis have cut off our oil and crude has jumped from four dollars a barrel to 12, so... You can see that the American people will pay a high price for supporting Israel. Which is why we need the ceasefire agreement.

Golda Meir: I thought we were friends, Henry...
Henry Kissinger: We will always protect Israel.
Golda Meir: Like you did in '48? We had to get our weapons from Stalin. Stalin! Our survival is not in your gift. If we have to, we will fight alone.

Golda Meir: Let me tell you about the Russians, Henry. When I was a child in Ukraine, at Christmas time, my father would board up the windows of our house... To protect us from Cossacks who would get drunk and attack Jews. They would beat Jews to death in the street for fun. My father would hide us in the cellar. And we'd stay silent, hoping the killers would pass us by. My father's face, Henry. I will never forget that look. All he wanted was to protect his children. I am not that little girl hiding in the cellar!
Henry Kissinger: So, now you're going to fight with the Russians too, huh?
Golda Meir: You must choose, Henry. Side with me or I will create an army of orphans and widows.
Henry Kissinger: This is not the way to...
Golda Meir: I will slaughter them all. Whose side are you on? You must choose.

David 'Dado' Elazar: I have a message from Sadat. He's offering direct talks. And an exchange of POWs. He has given the Red Cross a list of names. He referred to you as the Prime Minister of Israel, Golda.
Golda Meir: He used that word, "Israel"?
David 'Dado' Elazar: Yes. Israel. He's recognizing Israel.

Golda Meir: Why?
Zvi Zamir: Who likes to be wrong?
Golda Meir: The listening system must be kept secret. No one must know about this.
Zvi Zamir: You will take the blame?.. I will defend your memory. I promise you that.

Golda Meir: My gut told me that war was coming. But I ignored it. I should've mobilized that night. All those boys who died, I will carry the pain of that to my grave... Please, don't write that down.

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Tetris (2023)

Eddie: What's it called?
Henk Rogers: Tetris.
Eddie: Tetris... I don't get it.
Henk Rogers: It's a combination of tetra, Greek for "four"... All the game's pieces are variants of four... and tennis.
Eddie: Tennis?
Henk Rogers: Tennis. Yeah, supposedly, the Russian inventor, he, um... he likes tennis.

Tracy: Here, Henk. Try it.
Henk Rogers: Was this coded in Pascal, or C?

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, I played Tetris for five minutes, yeah. I still see falling blocks in my dreams. This game isn't just addictive. It stays with you. It's poetry. Art and math all working in magical synchronicity. It's… It's the perfect game.

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, this is different. Tetris is already a hit.
Eddie: Where?
Henk Rogers: Russia.
Eddie: Henk, there is no video games business in Russia.
Henk Rogers: I know.

Henk Rogers: It all began with a guy named Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, four years ago. By day, he worked as a programmer for the government at the Soviet Computer Science Center. But by night, he invented games for fun. His computer, a Stone Age, Soviet piece of crap called an Electronika 60, didn't even have a graphics card. His falling blocks were parentheses pushed together.

Henk Rogers: Alexey and a couple of buddies from work made the game IBM-compatible. Which meant color graphics, 8-bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free. It spread like wildfire.

Henk Rogers: But this is the Soviet Union, remember? Nothing gets out easily. It would take an entrepreneur to actually go there and monetize it.
Eddie: Who? You?
Henk Rogers: Jesus, no. I'm not that crazy. That was Robert Stein.

Hiroshi Yamauchi: Not too bad.
Henk Rogers: Really?

Hiroshi Yamauchi: We publish our games in-house. We don't use outside partners.
Henk Rogers: You don't do it often, true. But you do make exceptions. Because you know as well as I do, partners are what make us great. That's why Mario has Luigi. That's why Zelda has Link. That's why Mike Tyson has whoever he's punching out in Punch-Out!!

Henk Rogers: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Eddie. Nintendo is letting me become a publisher. Nintendo. It's a license to print money.

Henk Rogers: An NDA? Why?
Howard Lincoln: Because only ten other people in the world have seen what you're about to see, and, to be honest, we don't trust you.

Henk Rogers: 8-bit graphics?
Minoru Arakawa: Yes, and a brand-new Sharp LR35902 core at 4.19 mega-hertz with eight kilobytes internal RAM.
Henk Rogers: Impressive. No color screen?
Minoru Arakawa: Color, you'd need eight batteries instead of four. It's too expensive. This gives you 30 hours of game play, all for $89.
Henk Rogers: What's it called?
Howard Lincoln: It's called the Game Boy.

Henk Rogers: Gentlemen, if you wanna sell a couple hundred thousand Game Boys to little kids, package them with Mario. But if you wanna sell millions of Game Boys to absolutely everyone, young and old, around the world, package them with Tetris.
Howard Lincoln: Can you get us the rights?

Henk Rogers: Screw it. I'm gonna go to Moscow.
Howard Lincoln: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, you can't just go to the Soviet Union, Henk. You need a... You need a business visa, a full background check. It takes months.
Henk Rogers: Well, I'll get a tourist visa then.
Howard Lincoln: So, you'll lie? That's a felony. They could throw you in jail.
Henk Rogers: I'll take my chances.

Howard Lincoln: Who you gonna talk to?
Henk Rogers: Some company called ELORG.
Howard Lincoln: Companies don't exist in the USSR, Henk. ELORG is probably KGB.
Henk Rogers: Do you guys want this game or not?
Howard Lincoln: Yeah, course we do. But you're walking into a communist country that still considers America enemy numero uno. If you go, we can't protect you.
Henk Rogers: Okey dokey then.

Immigration Agent: You're Danish?
Henk Rogers: Huh? No. I'm Dutch.
Immigration Agent: Yet you sound American.
Henk Rogers: Well, I grew up in New York, but I'm Dutch. An... And I live in Japan.

Sasha: Salutations. You're in need of succor?
Henk Rogers: Excuse me?
Sasha: Uh, succor. Noun. Uh, assistance in times of stress. Synonymous with help... Sasha. Translation services. Esteemed to meet you.
Henk Rogers: Oh.

Sasha: He inquires, "What is Nintendo?"
Henk Rogers: Ha. Very funny... Uh, Nintendo's the most popular video game console in the world, sir.

Sasha: He denies obtaining a tape. And says that this is an illegal copy. Mr. Rogers, I think we should vanish.
Henk Rogers: He thinks I stole Tetris?
Sasha: Affirmative.

Henk Rogers: Pascal or assembler?
Alexey Pajitnov: I was gonna ask you the same thing.
Henk Rogers: Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate…
Alexey Pajitnov: …the power of BASIC.
Henk Rogers: That's spooky.

Howard Lincoln: What makes you so sure this Alexey character isn't lying?
Henk Rogers: Because he's the only one who stands to gain nothing from this.

Sasha: Why is it so important that the Maxwells win? Isn't the offer with more money better for the Soviet Union?
Valentin Trifonov: I'll concern myself with the fate of the Soviet Union. You go and do your job. Dismissed.

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Babylon (2022)

Manny Torres: I think you want to become a star. Nellie LaRoy: Honey, you don't become a star. You either are one or you ain't. I am.

Manny Torres: Morphine, opium, ether, heroin, coke. And Louis XIV sat on that.

Jack Conrad: You know what we gotta do? We gotta redefine the form. The man who puts gasoline in your tank goes to the movies why?... Why? Why?... Because he feels less alone there. Don't we owe him more than the same old shit?

Jack Conrad: You got the guys in Europe with the twelve-tone. You got Bauhaus architecture. Fucking Bauhaus, you know? And we're still doing costume pictures? It's the dinosaurs, kid.

Jack Conrad: We've got to innovate. We've got to inspire. We got to dream beyond these pesky shells of flesh and bone. Map those dreams onto celluloid and print them into history. Turn today into tomorrow so that tomorrow's lonely man may look up at that flickering screen and say for the very first time, "Eureka! I am not alone!"

Jack Conrad: You ever been on a movie set before?
Manny Torres: No.
Jack Conrad: You'll see. It's the most magical place in the world.
Manny Torres: I've heard.

Jack Conrad: Did you see the butterfly? That was a butterfly.

Ruth Adler: I gotta ask you something. Yeah? Was it okay? It was incredible! I just-- How do you do it? Just tear up over and over like it's nothing?
Nellie LaRoy: I just think of home.

Nellie LaRoy: I hate when people put fucking toppings on ice cream. Doesn't need it. It messes up a good thing. You know what I mean? I fucking hate that.

Jack Conrad: Aw, Georgie. Who was it this time?
George Munn: Claire.
Jack Conrad: Claire. Well, Claire's a lesbian. That's an uphill battle for anyone.

George Munn: Welcome to the wonderful world of sound!
Jack Conrad: I have to do this?
George Munn: What do you mean? It's gonna be great!
Jack Conrad: Just stand there and sing?
George Munn: Exactly.
Jack Conrad: While it's raining.
George Munn: Yeah.
Jack Conrad: And that's Noah's Ark?
George Munn: Uh, I believe so, yeah.
Jack Conrad: Because it's raining so much?

Jack Conrad: It's not a low art, you know. I want you to know that. What I do means something to millions of people!

Jack Conrad: My folks didn't have the money or the education to go to the theater, so they went to the vaudeville houses, and then the nickelodeons. And you know what? There's beauty there. What happens up on that screen means something. Maybe not to you in your ivory tower. But for real people on the ground, it means something.
Estelle: Jack, I-I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jack Conrad: Of course you don't. Of course you don't! A hundred thousand people see you on Broadway, and it's the smash of the century, right? Well, here it's a flop! A fucking flop! So do me a favor, darling. Save your subtext recommendations for your pretentious Eugene O'Neill-Henrik Ibsen jerk-offs that only a handful of rich geriatrics give two fucks about, and I'll do what I do without your help!

Elinor St. John: Okay, don't forget. Your friend Manuel pulled a lot of strings to get you in here. These people choose who stays and who goes. So show them that you're a lady of sophistication and you'll be back on top. So, now what did we discuss?
Nellie LaRoy: "-ing" not "-in." "Isn't" not "ain't." And when in doubt, say somethin' French.
Elinor St. John: Perfection! Also, no drinking, and try not to eat too much.

Elinor St. John: Do you miss the silents?
Jack Conrad: No. We shouldn't stand in the way of progress.

Jack Conrad: You know, when I first moved to LA, you know what the signs on all the doors read? "No actors or dogs allowed." Yeah, I changed that. I helped build this place you call home. I've never had any illusions about us. I've never pretended we're friends. We're friendly. I scratch yours, you scratch mine. That's our work. But this? This is something else.
Elinor St. John: What do you want, Jack?
Jack Conrad: I want to know why you wrote it.
Elinor St. John: No, you want to know why they laughed. Would you like me to tell you?
Jack Conrad: Why they laughed... Sure, Elinor. Why?
Elinor St. John: There is no why. It wasn't your voice. It wasn't a conspiracy. And it certainly wasn't anything I wrote. There's nothing you could have done differently. There's nothing you can do. Your time has run out. There is no why. Stop questioning it.
Jack Conrad: I'm on a dry spell.
Elinor St. John: No. It's over. It's been over for a while. I'm sorry.

Jack Conrad: Elinor, you peddle gossip. You don't make anything. You don't know what it is to put yourself out there. You're just a cockroach. I've been counted out before. This isn't new to me.
Elinor St. John: Have you ever stopped to think why, when there's a house fire, the people die and the cockroaches all survive?

Jack Conrad: Jesus Christ.
Elinor St. John: What happened was you thought the house needed you. It doesn't. Doesn't need you any more than it needs the roaches. And the roaches, knowing this, crawl back into the dark, lay low, and make it through.
     See, but you, you held the spotlight. It's those of us in the dark, the ones who just watch, who survive. A house fire. And there'll be hundreds more like it, too. An earthquake could wipe this town off the map and wouldn't make a difference. It's the idea that sticks.
     There'll be a hundred more Jack Conrads. Hundred more me's. Hundred more conversations just like this one, over and over again, until God knows when. Because it's bigger than you...
     I know it hurts. No one asks to be left behind. But in a hundred years, when you and I are both long gone, any time someone threads a frame of yours through a sprocket, you will be alive again. You see what that means? One day, every person on every film shot this year will be dead. And one day, all those films will be pulled from the vaults, and all their ghosts will dine together, and adventure together, go to the jungle, to war together. A child born in 50 years will stumble across your image flickering on a screen and feel he knows you, like-- like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first.
     You've been given a gift. Be grateful. Your time today is through, but you'll spend eternity with angels and ghosts.
Jack Conrad: .... Thank you for that.

Irving Thalberg: So? What do you think?
Jack Conrad: Yeah. I just have one question. It's a piece of shit, isn't it?
Irving Thalberg: What?
Jack Conrad: And I'd be bailing you out, wouldn't I?
Irving Thalberg: No. No. Of course not.
Jack Conrad: Irv, let's just call it for what it is. That's all I ask. I'll do your movie. I'll bail you out. All I want in return is a little honesty. Can you do that, Irv? Can you be honest with me for ten seconds or so? I'd be bailing you out, wouldn't I?
Irving Thalberg: ... Yeah, you'd be bailing me out.
Jack Conrad: And it's a piece of shit, isn't it?
Irving Thalberg: Yeah, it's a piece of shit.
Jack Conrad: Okay, Irv. I'll see you on set.

Lady Fay Zhu: You okay, sweetie?
Jack Conrad: It was the most magical place in the world, wasn't it?
Lady Fay Zhu: It was.
Jack Conrad: Another set, another review. Another romance, another breakup... I'm tired, Fay. It's okay. It's okay. I've been the luckiest bastard in the world. I had a good run, didn't I? Hmm?
Lady Fay Zhu: You sure did.
Jack Conrad: Yeah. I enjoyed that...

Jack Conrad: It was so good to see you, Fay. You're gonna do great things in Europe. You were always one of the good ones.
Lady Fay Zhu: Thank you. Ciao, my love.
Jack Conrad: Ciao. See you in Venice. See you in Prague...

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LBJ (2016)

Lady Bird Johnson: Don't you just love Texas? Is there anywhere else you'd rather be?

Senator Ralph Yarborough: I should tell you I have not changed my position in the slightest.
Lyndon B. Johnson: No problem. No problem at all. But, listen, while I got you here, there is one question... I've been meaning to ask you. Have you got shit for brains?

Senator Ralph Yarborough: We should be doing a heck of a lot more for the people who have less.
Lyndon B. Johnson: The only thing more irritating than a liberal is a liberal from Texas.

Lyndon B. Johnson: I'll endorse whoever wins our party's nomination.
Bobby Kennedy: And there's no chance that'll be you, correct?
Lyndon B. Johnson: How many different ways you want me to answer that?
Bobby Kennedy: One would suffice.
Lyndon B. Johnson: I have zero intention of running for president.

Lyndon B. Johnson: I wanna know why you're putting these signs up... For starters, Johnson has not said that he's running for president... The reason I know is because I'm fucking him! No, I'm not fucking him, I am him!

Walter Jenkins: He's the best Senate majority leader this country's ever had. He works harder than the other 99 senators combined. He doesn't understand why he's not the party's favorite. He doesn't understand why they don't just hand it to him.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Nobody gets handed the presidency...
Walter Jenkins: Why won't he commit?
George Reedy: That's complicated.
Walter Jenkins: He's afraid.
George Reedy: Of what?
Walter Jenkins: Hell, every politician's afraid people won't vote for him.
Lady Bird Johnson: He's afraid people won't love him.

Lady Bird Johnson: When father first met you, he said: "Daughter, you brought home a lot of boys. This time, you brought home a man."
Lyndon B. Johnson: At least he liked me right away.

Walter Jenkins: Ten of 36?
George Reedy: Of the 36 men who have been vice president... 10 have gone on to become president.

Walter Jenkins: Kennedy loses, the majority leader will be the most powerful Democrat in the country. Kennedy wins, the majority leader will still be... the most powerful Democrat in Congress. There's just no power in the vice presidency.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Walter, how long you been with me?
Walter Jenkins: Twenty-one years.
Lyndon B. Johnson: And in 21 years, can you think of a time that I have taken over a new office... and not made it 100 times more powerful than when I got there?
Walter Jenkins: No, sir.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Power is where power goes.
George Reedy: So, what are you saying? When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade?
Lyndon B. Johnson: No, George, I'm saying, sometimes, you think the Lord is giving you lemons... and, in fact, he's giving you big, beautiful titties.

Walter Jenkins: Which side are you on?
Lyndon B. Johnson: You're missing the point. As long as neither side declares all-out war, both sides need me. The best thing that can happen for me is this civil rights debate goes on forever.
George Reedy: And how do we make that happen, sir?
Lyndon B. Johnson: Compromise, boys. Endless compromise.

Lyndon B. Johnson: What did Abe Lincoln say after he woke up from a three-day drunk?
Senator Richard Russell: I don't know.
Lyndon B. Johnson: "I freed the what?"

Lyndon B. Johnson: I'm not saying that you're not right about this... but you need to do a little bit more on this one. You're gonna have to hire some nigras.
Senator Richard Russell: Well, who do you think mops the floors?
Lyndon B. Johnson: I'm not talking about janitors. I'm talking about engineers, skilled labor.
Senator Richard Russell: Show me a skilled one first.

Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy did get elected by appealing to the colored man. Now, if we play this right, we're gonna have those nigras... voting Democrat the next 200 years.
Senator Richard Russell: You want me to surrender? What are you doing?
Lyndon B. Johnson: No. I am asking you... I'm begging you... to give these Kennedys a little something just to quiet them down.

Senator Richard Russell: The Kennedys attended private schools their entire lives. Now they wanna talk about equality. Voluntary integration is one thing, but don't you think that I... as an American citizen, shouldn't be forced to eat a hamburger... next to someone in a restaurant I don't wanna bump elbows with?
Lyndon B. Johnson: Dick, I think it is unconscionable... that you, as an American citizen, should ever... be forced to eat a hamburger.

Senator Richard Russell: I don't find this topic amusing.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, here's where I get confused. A baby calf is born. It grows into a cow, lives on a farm, gets slaughtered... butchered, packaged, shipped, cooked... and finally served to you. Most, if not all, those steps required the hands of black men. Why is it that when it comes time to eat it... you can't stomach the notion of sitting next to a black man while you chew?

Senator Richard Russell: "If the law can compel me to hire a negro... it can compel a negro to work for me. And such a law would do nothing more than enslave a minority." And that's what one senator had to say about civil rights legislation.
Lyndon B. Johnson: That's probably Strom Thurmond. He's an asshole and a moron.
Senator Richard Russell: No, it was you. 1949, your first speech on the Senate floor. Ha. You spoke for over an hour in opposition to a civil rights bill just like this one. I remember watching you speak, thinking to myself: "This young man's the future of the South..."

Senator Richard Russell: Look, what I'm talking about here is freedom. I'm talking about the preservation of a way of life. A way of life that you and I both grew up with. There's nothing wrong with that.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Then why are we whispering?

Senator Richard Russell: Mr. President... Mr. President. In this dark hour of our nation's history... we must remember to give thanks for our blessings. Because out of the despicable ashes of a presidential assassination... a new leader has emerged. And we're all here to offer our support. After a century of persecution, a century of being treated as inferior... after 100 long years... we finally have one of our own leading this nation. America has a Southern president! And we could think of no finer representative for our people.

Lyndon B. Johnson: I'm pleased to see you back at work already. The Constitution put me in the White House... but there's no law to make you stay here with me.

Lyndon B. Johnson: I know you loved President Kennedy... but I need you now more than he ever did. Not that I loved Caesar less... but that I loved Rome more.
Kenny O'Donnell: I can't believe he quoted Shakespeare.
Larry O'Brien: Can't believe he quoted Brutus.

Lyndon B. Johnson: They don't... They want... They want Jack. They love Jack. They love Bobby. They... They don't even like me.

Lady Bird Johnson: You're a good man in a tight spot. President Kennedy did wonderful things for America. Not the least of which was choosing you to be his successor.
Lyndon B. Johnson: He was a man of great ideas.
Lady Bird Johnson: Now the country needs a man... who can deliver.

Lyndon B. Johnson: The personal cook of the vice president of the United States... has to drive through towns without stopping... then squat to pee by the side of the road. Hundred years ago, she would've been a slave. Hundred years from now, hell, she might be president.

Kenny O'Donnell: Four other presidents have fought Congress on this and failed.
Lyndon B. Johnson: There will be no compromise. There will be no negotiation. And there will be no failure. This time, Congress is not fighting a president. It's fighting two. Never underestimate the intensity of a martyr's cause... or the size of a Texan's balls.

Ted Sorensen: Do you really believe he can accomplish all this?
Walter Jenkins: I do.
Ted Sorensen: How can he?
Walter Jenkins: The same way he always has.

Senator Richard Russell: I think I'm done drinking with you. You hurt the very people who made you who you are. And for what?
Lyndon B. Johnson: Civil rights is an idea whose time has come.
Senator Richard Russell: This will define your presidency.
Lyndon B. Johnson: I can only hope.

Lyndon B. Johnson: We've been talking about this forever, and we never say a damn thing.
Senator Richard Russell: Well... What...? What do you wanna say? That you're gonna turn your back on me? That you don't care about everything I've done for you? That you're willing to betray me?
Lyndon B. Johnson: That you're a racist.
Lyndon B. Johnson: Members of the House, Members of the Senate... my fellow Americans. All I have... I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. ...

Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, if we've learned anything from President Kennedy... it's that life is precious and time is fleeting. And I don't intend to waste either. Mistakes will be made, but inaction won't be one of them. John Kennedy gave people hope. Now we are gonna give them results. Let's get to work.

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Queen Victoria Syndrome

The Crown 5×1

Queen Elizabeth II: I am delighted to join you in Clydebank today for the launch of this, the latest royal yacht. I hope that this brand-new vessel, like your brand-new queen, will prove to be dependable and constant. Capable of weathering any storm. I now take great pride in naming this ship "Britannia." I wish success to her. And to all who sail in her.

Prince Charles: I know the Queen thinks the royal yacht is perfect in every way, but as a... an intimate space for newlyweds, it's like a floating observation tank. Every... awkward silence and stilted conversation between bride and gloom glaringly obvious to each and every one of the 200 crew.
Norton Knatchbull: Did you just say "bride and gloom"?
Prince Charles: Did I? Oh! The irony is, I'm the only person this marriage does make gloomy.

Prince Philip: It's outrageous. She never stops. She never complains. She never puts a foot wrong. She's utterly magnificent, and they print rubbish like this.

Queen Elizabeth II: "Queen Victoria Syndrome"? Yes, I saw that. "An aging monarch, too long on the throne, whose remoteness from the modern world has led people to grow tired not just of her, but of the monarchy itself."

Prince Charles: "Queen Victoria Syndrome." What were your conclusions?
John Major: It's just a poll, sir.
Prince Charles: True. Not a reassuring one.
John Major: Polls come and go.
Prince Charles: Dangerous to ignore them.
John Major: Equally dangerous to be guided by them.

Prince Charles: For almost 60 years, my great-great-grandfather, Edward VII, was kept waiting in the wings. It was said that Queen Victoria had no confidence in him. Thought him dangerous. Free-thinking. He longed to be given responsibilities, but his mother refused. Even forbade him from seeing state papers. And yet, when his time came, he proved his doubters wrong, and his dynamism, his intellect, his popular appeal made his reign a triumph.
John Major: What are you saying, sir?
Prince Charles: I'm saying, what a pity it was. What a waste. That his... voice, his... his presence, his vision wasn't incorporated earlier. It would have been so good. For everybody.

Queen Elizabeth II: What people fail to understand is, I see any similarity with Queen Victoria as a compliment. Attributes people use to describe her, constancy, stability, calm, duty, I would be proud to have describe me.

Queen Elizabeth II: When I came to the throne, all my palaces were inherited. Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham. They all bear the stamp of my predecessors. Only Britannia have I truly been able to make my own. Perhaps for that reason, the connection between me and the yacht is very much deeper than a mode of transport or even a home. From the design of the hull to the smallest piece of china, she is a floating, seagoing expression of me.

Prince Charles: Sometimes these old things are... They're too costly to keep repairing.

John Major: When you imagine the problems you might be confronted with as prime minister, you imagine... tricky sessions at PMQs. The economy in free fall. Going to war. You never imagine this... The House of Windsor should be binding the nation together. Setting an example of idealized family life. Instead, the senior royals seem dangerously deluded and out of touch. The junior royals, feckless, entitled, and lost. And the Prince of Wales, impatient for a bigger role in public life, fails to appreciate that his one great asset is his wife. It's a situation that can't help but affect the stability of the country. And what makes it worse is, it feels it's all about to erupt. On my watch.

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Josette Frank: As you know, we are reviewing your handling of Wonder Woman... given the current controversy.
William Moulton Marston: You're gonna give her to someone else? She's a smash success because of me. I created her.
Josette Frank: Dr. Marston, Wonder Woman has drawn criticism... for being full of depictions of bondage... spanking, torture, homosexuality, and other sex perversions. Would you say that's a fair assessment of your work?
William Moulton Marston: I can see how people with a fairly limited understanding of my work... could arrive at these simplistic descriptions. They'd be wrong, of course.

Elizabeth Marston: Well, then, do it.
William Moulton Marston: You won't be jealous?
Elizabeth Marston: No, I don't experience sexual jealousy. Who am I to fight nature? I'm your wife, not your jailer.

Elizabeth Marston: Oh, and if you fuck my husband, I'll kill you.

Elizabeth Marston: Look, I feel sorry for you. No, really, I... I do, it's not your fault. It's, um, your beauty, it's like a... Well, it's like a handicap. It's like having three legs or something.
Olive Byrne: Mrs. Marston, I...
Elizabeth Marston: No, there's no need to be defensive. I'm just asking you the courtesy of please not fucking my husband. Can you do that for me?
Olive Byrne: Yes.
Elizabeth Marston: Thank you.

William Moulton Marston: How are you going to learn anything at all about life if you refuse to live it?

Olive Byrne: I do envy men's position in life, their physical strength, their entitlement. My aunt said, "A woman must not be told how to use her freedom... she must find out for herself."
William Moulton Marston: Your aunt, my dear, is quoting Margaret Sanger.
Olive Byrne: My aunt is Margaret Sanger.
Elizabeth Marston: The Margaret Sanger?

William Moulton Marston: Dominance, inducement, submission... and compliance. All human relationships break down into the interplay... between these categories of emotion. .....

Elizabeth Marston: Bill, her rhythmic breathing increases.
William Moulton Marston: Benussi already exhausted that avenue.
Elizabeth Marston: Her heart beats faster. Her systolic blood pressure would rise.
William Moulton Marston: Her systolic blood pressure. You could measure that. Oh, you could fucking measure that. You could measure that. Oh, my God. Ha-ha-ha. Think of it sooner...
Elizabeth Marston: Oh, my God. We did it!
Bill Marston: The link to the lie-detector test was there the whole time. It doesn't matter what you say or what you think. Your body will always betray you. Your heart pumps a record of the truth.

Elizabeth Marston: What is it that attracts you to her?
William Moulton Marston: She is beautiful... guileless, kind, pure of heart. And you are brilliant... ferocious, hilarious... and a grade-A bitch. Together, you are the perfect woman.

William Moulton Marston: If the nature of men is inherently violent and anarchistic... and the nature of women is inherently loving and nurturing... then shouldn't women be the ones to rule the world? Wouldn't that be a more reasonable choice?... But be warned, ladies. We men will not give up our power without a fight.

Charles Guyette: What did you have in mind?
William Moulton Marston: Hmm... Uh, something Greek?
Charles Guyette: How about an Amazon?
William Moulton Marston: That's fantastic.

Elizabeth Marston: Honey, this is pornography. Isn't this illegal?
William Moulton Marston: Yes, yes, but look closely.
Elizabeth Marston: I don't understand what we're supposed to be looking at.
William Moulton Marston: Okay. Dominance... inducement, submission... compliance. This imagery is a metaphor for DISC theory. These pictures communicate in an instant... what I've spent my entire career trying to explain. This is what we should be doing.
Elizabeth Marston: Sweetheart... this is pornography.

Elizabeth Marston: A comic book, Bill?
William Moulton Marston: Well, it's perfect. I'm going to inject my ideas right into the thumping heart of America. I mean, I'll get a real artist to draw it properly. She's an Amazon princess that lives on an island of all women.
Olive Byrne: Paradise Island.
Elizabeth Marston: And a man crash-lands on the island?
William Moulton Marston: Yeah, Steve Trevor, the spy.
Elizabeth Marston: And she wears a burlesque outfit.
William Moulton Marston: Well, it's athletic.
Olive Byrne: And silver bracelets.
William Moulton Marston: They deflect bullets.
Elizabeth Marston: And all her friends are sorority girls... who have spanking parties, and everybody fights Nazis... and rides in an invisible plane?
William Moulton Marston: Yes.

William Moulton Marston: What?
Elizabeth Marston: Bill. We love you truly, so much. But nobody... I say this with all the compassion and truth in my heart. Nobody will ever publish this.

William Moulton Marston: Mr. Gaines, please do not make the mistake... of lumping me into the cesspool of riffraff with whom you usually deal. I am a Harvard-trained doctor of psychology... with nearly 25 years' experience into the analysis of human emotion. I'm also the inventor of the lie detector.
M.C. Gaines: No shit.
William Moulton Marston: Suprema, the Wonder Woman will not be an ordinary comic book. But instead, the start of a powerful feminist movement. She will be carefully crafted, psychological propaganda... based on a lifetime of research into the human mind... inserted into a populist medium to further equal rights for women.

M.C. Gaines: Eh. Suprema, the Wonder Woman? It's too wordy. Why don't you just call her, uh, Wonder Woman?

Josette Frank: You don't even deny that these images are overtly sexual.
William Moulton Marston: An erotic component is necessary. How else is submission supposed to be pleasurable?

William Moulton Marston: I am teaching readers to submit to a loving authority. And that submission is pleasurable. Young boys must learn this... if they are to grow up respecting powerful women.
Josette Frank: What is powerful about a woman running around in a bathing suit?

William Moulton Marston: You need to submit to her.
Elizabeth Marston: I don't know what you're talking about.
William Moulton Marston: You cannot win every argument. You cannot dominate all the time. Get on your knees.

Elizabeth Marston: I thought I knew everything. I thought love wasn't enough. But it... It has to. It has to be enough because we cannot... We cannot live without you. I cannot live without you.

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Braveheart (1995)

William Wallace: I can fight.
Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.

Argyle Wallace: Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.

William Wallace: What are they doing?
Argyle Wallace: Saying goodbye in their own way. Playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes.

Longshanks - King Edward I: The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.

Longshanks - King Edward I: Perhaps the time has come to reinstitute an old custom. Grant them Prima Nocte... First night. When any common girl inhabiting their lands is married, our nobles shall have sexual rights to her on the night of her wedding. If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.

William Wallace: You've dropped your rock.
Hamish: Test of manhood.
William Wallace: You win.

William Wallace: Murron, would you like to come and ride with me on this fine evening?
Mother MacClannough: In this? You're out of your mind.
William Wallace: It's good Scottish weather, madam. The rain is falling straight down. Slightly to the side, like.

William Wallace: Of course, running a farm's a lot of work, but that will all change when my sons arrive.
Murron: So you've got children?
William Wallace: Not yet, but I was hoping that you could help me with that.
Murron: So you want me to marry you, then?
William Wallace: It's a bit sudden, but all right.
Murron: Is that what you call a proposal?
William Wallace: I love you. Always have.

Robert Bruce 17th: This Wallace, he doesn't even have a knighthood, but he fights with passion, and he inspires.
Robert Bruce 16th: And you wish to charge off and fight as he did? So would I.
Robert Bruce 17th: Well, maybe it's time.
Robert Bruce 16th: It is time to survive. You're the 17th Robert Bruce. The 16 before you passed you land and title because they didn't charge in.

Robert Bruce 16th: You admire this man, this William Wallace. Uncompromising men are easy to admire. He has courage, so does a dog. But it is exactly the ability to compromise that makes a man noble. And understand this, Edward Longshanks is the most ruthless king ever to sit on the throne of England, and none of us and nothing of Scotland will remain unless we are as ruthless.

William Wallace: Fight, and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom?

William Wallace: Here are Scotland's terms. Lower your flags and march straight back to England, stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for 100 years of theft, rape and murder. Do that and your men shall live. Do it not and every one of you will die today.

William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom, and I go to make sure that they have it.

Princess Isabelle: Will you speak with a woman?

Princess Isabelle: I understand you have recently been given the rank of knight.
William Wallace: I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.
Did God make you the sacker of peaceful cities, the executioner of the king's nephew, my husband's own cousin?

William Wallace: You know what happens if we don't take that chance?
Hamish: What?
William Wallace: Nothing.

Robert Bruce 16th: At last, you know what it means to hate. Now you're ready to be a king.

Princess Isabelle: In time, who knows what can happen if you can only live.
William Wallace: If I swear to him, then all that I am is dead already.
Princess Isabelle: You will die. It will be awful.
William Wallace: Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

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The Northman (2022)

Aurvandil: The enemy had a taste of my liver.
Gudrun: Are you hurt?
King Aurvandil War-Raven: Almost enough for Amleth to be marked my successor... I watched his innocence tonight. He must be awoken to what awaits him.
Queen Gudrún: He is a puppy.
King Aurvandil War-Raven: He's the same age as my grandfather when he took the throne.
Queen Gudrún: That was different.
King Aurvandil War-Raven: He had to kill his uncle first.

King Aurvandil War-Raven: Pray my luck spirits see me to many war fields after I defeat this wound. I refuse to die in sickness nor live the long life of a shameful graybeard. I must die by the sword. I will die in honor.
Queen Gudrún: Fret not. You will die in battle, my lord. The gates of Valholl await you, I know it.

Amleth: I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir! I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir! I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir! I will avenge you, father! I will save you, mother!....

Olga of the Birch Forest: Your sheep's clothing does not disguise you, Northman.

Amleth: It's a nightmare.
Olga of the Birch Forest: Then you must wake up.
Amleth: It's their nightmare.

Olga of the Birch Forest: You found me.
Amleth: Were you lost?
Olga of the Birch Forest: Only if you were searching for me.

Amleth: I am Amleth the bear-wolf, son of King Aurvandil War-Raven, and I am his vengeance!

Amleth: It was prophesied that I must choose between kindness for my kin and hate for my enemies.
Olga of the Birch Forest: And see what hope we have before us.
Amleth: I choose both.

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Redeeming Love (2022)

Lucky: You got to have plans, Angel. You got to hope for something more in this world outside of this... paradise.
Angel: Hope for what?
Lucky: You can't get by without hope.
Angel: I get by.
Lucky: How?
Angel: Never look back, never look forward.

Rebecca: All men want to do is use you... When you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds. None of them care... Nobody cares about anybody in this world.

Michael: Next time I pray to God for a woman to share my life, I'm gonna be a lot more specific...

Angel: Maybe I'll get... married or something.
Duchess: You fancy doing laundry and cooking for a man and giving him sex whenever and however he wants for free? You know how to make a man happy for 30 minutes. That's all you're good at.

Michael: Marriage is not slavery.

Michael: One mile can be harder to walk than 20.

Angel: If you knew half of what I did, you'd send me right back.
Michael: Uh, listen, you did not choose the life you had. Okay? But you can choose the life you want.

Paul: I-I-I need to talk to you about something, Michael. It's about Angel. Sh-She's not who you think she is.
Michael: She's exactly who I think she is. She's my wife.

Michael: Because... I love you.

Michael: See, sometimes you have to leave behind what you were born into to become who... who God meant you to be.

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Belfast (2021)

Buddy: Daddy, are you not gonna be a vigilante on our barricade?
Pa: No more talk about bloody barricades. That nonsense will stop soon enough.

Moira: They can just come up to you when you're not expecting it and ask you, "Are you Protestant or Catholic?" But it's a trick question, you see, because they don't tell you what they are. And what do you say then to not get a dig in the gob?
Buddy: "I'm a Catholic"?
Moira: Wrong. That's exactly what they think you will say. They think you're trying to bluff them. But you've to double bluff them.
Buddy: How?
Moira: You say, "I'm a Protestant."
Buddy: But I am a Protestant.
Moira: That's the point!

Billy: Look, things get out of hand pretty quick round these parts. Cash or commitment.

Moira: What have you got?.. You're joking me!
Buddy: It's all I could see.
Moira: Turkish Delight? Who the hell eats Turkish Delight? Do you eat Turkish Delight?
Buddy: No. I don't like it.
Moira: Nobody likes it.

Pa: Be good, Son. And if you can't be good?
Buddy: Be careful.
Pa: Be careful.

Ma: How could I leave Belfast?
Violet: I wouldn't worry about it. The Irish were born for leaving. Otherwise the rest of the world would have no pubs. It just needs half of us to stay, so that the other half can get sentimental about the ones that went. All the Irish need to survive is a phone, a Guinness and the sheet music to "Danny Boy."

Ma: You and me, we've known each other since we were toddlers. We've known this street and every street round it all our lives... and every man, woman and child that lives in every bloody house, whether we like it or not. I like it. And you say you have a wee garden for them boys? But here they can play wherever the hell they like, because everybody knows them, everybody likes them, and everybody looks after them.
     If we go over the water, them people's not gonna understand a word we say. And half of them, they'll take the hand out of us for sounding different. And the other half, they'll hate us, 'cause men here are killing their young sons on our streets. They'll think we don't give a shite. And you think they're gonna welcome us with open arms? What, and say, "Come on in. Well done for stealing the house off of us"?

Buddy: His work's giving my da a house in England now if he wants one. It's got a garden and everything, and two toilets, and they're both inside the house.
Pop: There's nothing wrong with an outside toilet, except on an aeroplane.

Buddy: My ma says if we went across the water, they wouldn't understand the way we talk.
Pop: That shouldn't be a problem, Son. I've been married to your granny for 50 years, I've never understood a word she's said. And if they can't understand you, then they're not listening, and that's their problem.

Buddy: What was the name of the place, Granny?
Granny: Shangri-La. That's what they called it.
Buddy: Did you ever go there?
Granny: There were no roads to Shangri-La from our part of Belfast.
Buddy: So will you go one day?

Pop: Get yourselves to the moon. London's only one small step for a man. Belfast will still be here when you get back.

Minister: "For now we see through a glass, darkly. For now I know in part, but then I shall know as also I am known. For when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but then I became a man and I put away childish things." So do not say in grief that you are sorry he is gone, but rather say in thankfulness you are grateful he was here.

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Benedetta (2021)

Giuliano Carlini: We also brought a lot of oranges, apples, and wine. And you will get the same amount for the next twenty-five years. Every year.
Sister Felicita: That's very generous of you, Mr. Carlini. And the deposit?

Sister Felicita: Every year we see hundreds of beautiful girls who want to serve God. These are this year's competitions. And I can only accept three.
Giuliano Carlini: .... In exchange for your acceptance of my daughter, I will be happy to present you with a gift of 50 gold coins. Not counting fruit and wine, that's fine too, right?
Sister Felicita: Outside these walls, the bride price is not less than 50 coins. Is the bride of Christ worth less?

Benedetta: I have seen Jesus.
Father Recordati: In a dream?
Benedetta: No. Of flesh and blood. How do I see you now in front of me.
Father Recordati: When you saw it, how did you feel?
Benedetta: Fearfully.
Father Recordati: So it was a false vision. When Christ becomes incarnate for us, we are filled with joy.
Benedetta: How do I know what is right and what is wrong?
Father Recordati: Through suffering. Suffering is the only way to know Christ.

Benedetta: I do not know. I don't know how God makes things happen. I only know that God expresses His will through me. It's not just my flesh. But His too.

Le nonce: What is love in your opinion?
Benedetta: I guess love is not feeling alone. It is... a heat here.

Soeur Rosanna: Keep your head up. I learned a thing or two when I was a prostitute. Humiliation leaves no scars.

Soeur Rosanna: ... She also wanted, to be taken to the plaza on a donkey, like when Christ entered Jerusalem.
Le nonce: The donkey certainly not. But I will let her do her little comedy with sister Felicita. After all, we have to play our roles, to the end, right?

Sister Felicita: God has never spoken to me as he speaks to you.
Benedetta: He is talking to you now. It speaks to you through your pain.
Sister Felicita: So, he talks a lot! But I don't understand anything he wants to tell me.

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

Louis Wain: Miss Richardson?
Emily Richardson: Yes?
Louis Wain: When it comes to drawing, there's only really one rule you ever need to teach. It's to look.

Emily Richardson-Wain: Just when I was starting to enjoy it...

Louis Wain: We have a new friend. He's called Peter.
Herbert Railton: Peter?
Louis Wain: He's a cat. We have a cat now.
Herbert Railton: For mousing, you mean?
Louis Wain: No, Herb, as a pet.
Herbert Railton: Okay, Louis, I'm worried about you.
Louis Wain: Why?
Herbert Railton: You have a cat as a pet.

Louis Wain: Do you know the true meaning of the phrase, "There's no time like the present," Herb? It's that there isn't. It's too fleeting. In fact, I have a hypothesis that electricity is what pushes us through time. We turn the past into the future with the power of our electricity. But that process is entirely reversible. Remembering the past is no different from imagining the future. And neither is different to life itself. I can remember Emily in the future and she will be there. Do you see what I'm saying, Herb? Do you see what I'm saying?

Louis Wain: But these don't capture the spirit of the fight, Sir William.
Sir William Ingram: Yes, they do. That's why they're in vogue. They're fast, they're cheap and they're 100% accurate. Louis Wain: But where is the electricity?

Sir William Ingram: I have two pages earmarked in the Christmas edition. Reserved for a bit of festive frivolity. Something to raise the spirits of our readers. I'd like you to fill them with cats.
Louis Wain: With... cats?
Sir William Ingram: Yes. With cats.
Louis Wain: Don't you think perhaps a spread of silly dogs would be more appealing for your readership?
Sir William Ingram: I've seen dogs before. And you capture something of the cat, Louis. Perhaps because you yourself are a bit of a renegade. An outcast, dare I say.

Sir William Ingram: How you've managed to conjure images of such delight at such a dark time... I don't know.

Emily Richardson-Wain: Throughout history, cats have been worshipped as mystical gods and maligned as the evil allies of witchery and sin. But I think you're the first person ever to see that they are in fact ridiculous. They're silly and cuddly. And lonely. And frightened and brave. Like us... One day, I don't think it'll be so peculiar to have a cat in the house as a little pet.

Louis Wain: Sometimes... I think about the day you won't be here... and... I have to say, Emily, I find it intolerably difficult to imagine. I will be so very alone.

Louis Wain: I don't know why it is that I find it so very difficult just being here on this earth, but... I can say with absolute certainty that you have made it much, much better. You make the world beautiful... and warm and kind. I just wanted to say thank you for that before it's too late.

Emily Richardson-Wain: I don't make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful. And you've helped me to see that too. Just remember... however hard things get... however much you feel like you're struggling... the world is full of beauty. And it's up to you to capture it, Louis. To look. And to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism. Through which that beam of life refracts.

Louis Wain: I didn't copyright the images...

Dr. Elphick: Mr Wain, there is no question that you are delusional.

Mrs. Wain: You can run away from your family, Louis. You cannot run away from your grief. It trails you. Like a violent shadow.

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Marshall (2017)

Walter White: We win this thing, our big donors are coming right back, Thurgood. There's only 13 million Negroes depending on you.

Sam Friedman: What do you want with those?
Thurgood Marshall: It's an old Negro superstition. Always take a little piece of the earth with you.
Sam Friedman: ... Really?

Sam Friedman: You are stabbing in the dark.
Thurgood Marshall: Maybe, but this I do know. The one thing Southerners like her hate more than the colored-- arrogant Yankee pricks like Willis.

Thurgood Marshall: In Europe right now, the forces of tyranny have mobilized behind the vision of a so-called master race. But here in America, our differences aren't supposed to matter. Here we're promised equal protection under the law. Separate but equal! Nothing complicated about that. That promise has not been realized, not even close. Not in Birmingham, Alabama, nor in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and certainly not here in Bridgeport, Connecticut-- where your bigotry is simply covered by a northern accent.
     But a fair jury can always render a just verdict. That's what we're striving for here today. The Constitution was not written for us. We know that. But no matter what, we're gonna make it work for us. From now on we claim it as our own.

Sam Friedman: See what your publicity stirs up?
Thurgood Marshall: No, it just brings 'em out where you can see 'em.

Thurgood Marshall: Understand this. If you want your freedom, you're gonna have to fight for it. But you don't have to fight alone. That's why I'm here. We've got weapons now, Joseph. Our people do. Weapons we didn't have before. We've got the law... And you've got Sam, one of the finest young trial lawyers in this country, on your side.

Thurgood Marshall: Well, get this through your head. The only way to get through a bigot's door is to break it down.

Thurgood Marshall: My father told me once, "If anybody calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him, you got my orders to fight him."
Sam Friedman: Your father say anything about being called a kike?
Thurgood Marshall: No. Not to me anyway.

Sam Friedman: What happens to the organization if we lose?
Thurgood Marshall: I don't even want to think about it.
Sam Friedman: You could blame me.
Thurgood Marshall: You're one of us now, Sam. Haven't you noticed? In the papers they write, "Sam Friedman and Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP."

Joseph Spell: So... why'd I lie, Mr. Willis? Because the truth gets me killed. That's why.

Thurgood Marshall: It's not really fires I'm after, Sam. It's fire itself.

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The Dig (2021)

Basil Brown: Well, I'm… I'm not untrained. I've been on dig since I was old enough to hold a trowel. My father taught me.

Edith Pretty: My interest in archaeology began like yours, when I was scarcely old enough to hold a trowel. My childhood home was built on a Cistercian convent. I helped my father excavate the apse.
Basil Brown: That speaks, don't it? The past.

Robert: Mr. Brown's been telling us all sorts of things. For instance, what's the most important part of an archaeologist's body?
Edith Pretty: I don't know.
Robert: His nose. If there's something there, he'll know it by the smell.

Basil Brown: That's a ship.
Edith Pretty: How do you mean, a ship?
Basil Brown: Oh, well, that's a ship that's been buried in the mound.
Robert: Why would anyone want to bury a ship?
Basil Brown: Well, I expect because that's a grave.
Robert: Whose grave?
Basil Brown: Well, I'd expect this is a grave of a… a great man. A warrior… or a king.

Basil Brown: They must have pulled his ship all the way up that there hill from the river. Now, they'd have put it on ropes, and they'd have hauled it over logs. Men, horses. It must have taken hundreds of 'em. I don't expect them to go to all this trouble for any little squirt. Can you imagine the send-off they'd be giving him? The songs they'd be singing.

Edith Pretty: The servants tell me you've studied everything, from Latin to geology.
Basil Brown: Well, a little education is a dangerous thing.

May Brown: You always told me your work isn't about the past or even the present. It's for the future. So that the next generations can know where they came from. The line that joins them to their forebears. Isn't that what you always say? Basil Brown: Yeah, something like that.
May Brown: Why else would the lot of you be playing in the dirt while the rest of the country prepares for war? Because that means something, innit? Something that'll last longer than whatever damn war we're heading into.

Charles Phillips: It's Dark Age, by Jupiter! Sixth century! This changes everything. These people were not just marauding barterers. They had culture! They had art! They had money!

Edith Pretty: Am I doing the right thing? It's someone's grave.
Basil Brown: No, that's… that's life what's revealed. And that's why we dig.

Rory Lomax: If 1,000 years… were to pass in an instant… what would be left of us?
Peggy Piggott: This. And parts of your watch. Torch. Fragments of the mug.
Rory Lomax: But every last scrap of you and I would… disappear.

Robert: When… When my father died… everyone said I had to look after my mother. And I failed. I failed.
Basil Brown: Robert… we all fail. Every day. There are some things we just can't succeed at… no matter how hard we try.

Edith Pretty: We die. We die and we decay. We don't live on.
Basil Brown: I'm not sure I agree. From the first human handprint on a cave wall… we're part of something continuous. So, we… don't really die.

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The Last Duel (2021)

Jean de Carrouges: I'm a very jealous man, milady. Tonight, you are mine and will dance with no other.
Marguerite Carrouges: And every night hereafter.

Jean de Carrouges: It was right.
Nicole de Carrouges: Right. There's no right. There is only the power of men.

Marguerite de Carrouges: Jean. I want him to answer for what he has done.
Jean de Carrouges: And he will. He will.

Sir Jean de Carrouges: I stand ready to prove my charge by my body against his and to render him dead at an appointed time.

Pierre d'Alençon: Too much wine. My Latin fails me.
Jacques le Gris: "We forgive a child afraid of the dark. Tragedy is men afraid of the light."

Jacques Le Gris: We knew it was wrong, I confessed my adultery, and performed my penance. But I swear to you, this charge of rape is false.

Le Coq: Formally, this is not about her. Rape is not a crime against a woman. It is a property crime against her male guardian.

Marguerite Carrouges: Jean, I intend to speak the truth. I will not be silent. I have no legal standing without your support.
Sir Jean de Carrouges: Then you shall have it.

Sir Jean de Carrouges: I will not appeal to the king. I will appeal to God.

Le Coq: Do you enjoy having intercourse with your husband?
Marguerite de Carrouges: Yes, of course.
Le Coq: It is not a matter of course. You are fully aware that you cannot conceive a child unless you experience pleasure at the end.
Marguerite de Carrouges: ... Yes. Yes.
Le Coq: And do you experience pleasure at the end?
Marguerite de Carrouges: ..... Yes. I do.
Physician: A rape cannot cause a pregnancy. This is just science.

Le Coq: If your husband were to lose the duel, it would demonstrate God's judgment and reveal you for having borne false witness.
Marguerite de Carrouges: I understand.
Le Coq: I'm certain your husband told you, the penalty for bearing false witness against a man by a woman, in the case of rape, is that you are to be stripped and shorn, fitted by the neck with an iron collar, lashed to a wooden post, and summarily burned alive. Lady Marguerite... It is quite common for the accused to burn for 20 to 30 minutes before they are dead.

Marguerite de Carrouges: Had I had known the truth would deprive me of this love, I believe I would have done what many women before me had done. Nothing.

Marguerite de Carrouges: I am not like you, Jean. A child needs his mother more than a mother needs to be right.

Jacques Le Gris: There was no rape. There was no rape! In the name of God and on the peril of damnation of my soul, I am innocent of the crime!

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Quiz #1.1

Paul Smith: It's not a game show, it's a quiz. That's the joy of it. People love a good pub quiz. A uniquely British invention combining our two greatest loves, drinking and being right.

David Liddiment: Well, where's the tension?
Paul Smith: Because we're watching people potentially making life-changing decisions. And we'll just sit there and watch them go through it all, the whole gamut of emotions, waiting. And then there's also the matter of the largest game show prize in the history of television.
David Liddiment: Right, yeah, so you're gonna bankrupt us all.
Paul Smith: Oh, there's nothing to worry about. It would take a very unique sort of person to risk going all the way. That fear is built into the show.

Claudia: Paul! Reception just said the Americans are here.
Jesus Christ, it's ABC, which is Disney. It's owned by Disney. Basically, Mickey Mouse is coming up the stairs.

Paul Smith: ...is it me, or have they all started to look a bit... the same? All a bit white and well-to-do, middle classy and Southerny and...
Chris Tarrant: Adrian Pollock from Wiltshire.
Paul Smith: ...white.

Charles Ingram: It's 32 grand, it's great!
Adrian Pollock: Thing is... The thing is... it doesn't quite cover the, uh... debts that the business is running at the moment and I, uh...
Diana Ingram: Debts? You... You don't normally have debts, why didn't you say?

Diana Ingram: You must go on. Onto the show. I've been on, Adrian has, it's... it's your turn.
Charles Ingram: It's my turn, is it?
Diana Ingram: To join the family business.

Charles Ingram: These mad schemes! I don't even like quizzes.

Chris Tarrant: Right, Major Charles Ingram, are you ready to play...

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Being the Ricardos (2021)

Lucille Ball: I'm not a Communist, I've never been a Communist, but technically, yeah, I am.

Lucille Ball: Fred C. Hunt, my grandfather, was a member of the party. This was in the early '30s. I was in my early 20s. He never used the word "Communist." But he cared about workers, the working man. He raised my little brother and me, and I wanted to please him. So I checked the box. Back then, it wasn't considered much worse than being a Republican.

Lucille Ball: Use a line on me you've never road-tested on anyone. I dare you.
Desi Arnaz: Would you like to learn how to rumba?
Lucille Ball: All right. Nice. And, yes, I would.
Desi Arnaz: Ah.
Lucille Ball: But there's absolutely no chance you haven't used that before.

Desi Arnaz: Uh, what's your, mm... ambition?
Lucille Ball: My ambition? For tonight? I wasn't making myself clear?
Desi Arnaz: No, I don't mean ambition. Ay, what do I mean? Uh...
Lucille Ball: Goals?
Desi Arnaz: No. Mm... future. Dreams.
Lucille Ball: What are my future dreams?
Desi Arnaz: I should've stuck with ambition.

Lucille Ball: Okay. I live in a small house.
Desi Arnaz: And your ambition is to live in a bigger house.
Lucille Ball: My ambition is to live in a home.
Desi Arnaz: Like for old folks?
Lucille Ball: Not a home, not an institution. A home.
Desi Arnaz: Ah.
Lucille Ball: With a family and dinnertime.

Desi Arnaz: Can I ask an impertinent question?
Lucille Ball: You gonna ask me why I'm not married?
Desi Arnaz: No, I was going to ask you why you're not a movie star.

Lucille Ball: You don't love me, and I don't love you, and you cheat on me every chance you can get, and I pretend I'm stupid, so I'm moving out. I'll send someone to pick up my clothes, okay? Love you. But, you know, not really.

Jess Oppenheimer: I'll bet you my next paycheck against your next paycheck that CBS won't even allow us to use the word "pregnant."

Desi Arnaz: Ay, maybe it'd be better if we didn't spend the little time we have arguing about why we don't have more time.

Lucille Ball: I'd like very much to have problems at home, but my problem's not home that much.

David Levy: Lucy, we've been here to the show a few times now. We noticed that when you do the show, you use gestures and expressions.
Lucille Ball: You mean the acting? My face, my body, my voice, that's all I get to work with.

Lucille Ball: There's no casting issue. I'm ready and eager to do a half-hour domestic comedy for CBS, if the role of my husband... let's call him Shmezy... is played by Desi.
David Hart: Can I remark on this?
Lucille Ball: Please.
David Hart: On My Favorite Husband, your husband is the fifth vice president of a bank.
Lucille Ball: Yes.
David Hart: Can I ask you, in all candor, do you see Desi as the fifth vice president of a bank?
Lucille Ball: I can't see him being the fifth vice president of anything. I can see him owning the bank.
Mr. Macy: You see the problem?
Lucille Ball: I see what you think is the problem.

Mr. Macy: I don't ordinarily come to meetings like this. This meeting is several floors below my general interest. I'm here to deliver a hard truth. We cannot have an all-American girl married to a man who isn't American.
Lucille Ball: He is American. He was a sergeant in the U.S. Army and he served in the war.
Mr. Macy: You know exactly what I mean, Lucy. He's Spanish.
Lucille Ball: Still no. He's never been to Spain in his life. He speaks Spanish. He was born in Cuba. His father was the mayor of Santiago, Cuba's second largest city.
Mr. Macy: You know exactly what...
Lucille Ball: What you mean? Yes. I do.

Lucille Ball: I don't want to take another meeting like this 'cause I don't know how many more people will fit around the table. My position is not gonna change. You want me on television? There is only one television show that I'm willing to do.

William Frawley: Sweet ladies? Something dies inside a man... it just dies... the first time he hears a girl call him old.

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Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Jack Kramer: It's not your fault, it's just... biology.

Gladys Heldman: Cigarettes? Ladies and gentle-ladies, may I present to you the Virginia Slims Championships. A Gladys Heldman/Philip Morris co-production. Smoking your guts out across the United States of America... in exchange for twelve months funding... and prize money of... drum roll, please... $7,000.

Gladys Heldman: You do the tennis, I'll do the smoking.

Bobby Riggs: You and me, Billie Jean. Three sets, five sets... Your choice.
Billie Jean King: Are you drunk, Bobby?
Bobby Riggs: No, of course not! How about this: "Man vs. Woman." "Male Chauvinist Pig vs. Hairy-Legged Feminist". No offense. You're still a feminist, right?
Billie Jean King: No, I'm a tennis player who happens to be a woman.
Bobby Riggs: That's right. That's exactly who you are. And I am a tennis player who happens to be a man... who says that he can beat any woman on the planet. Think of the publicity that we get. Think of the money.

Bobby Riggs: My name is Bobby and I am an addict... At least that's what Priscilla says. She's gonna leave me unless I quit gambling. Puzzles me, though, that word: "Gambling." Whenever Priscilla gets a car out of the garage, she's gambling big time. Never checks the mirror. Sticks it in reverse. Puts her foot down, right out onto the highway. Jeez Louise, that's gambling!

Bobby Riggs: My point is this: Life's a gamble, right? That's the thrill of it!

Bobby Riggs: You know, you folks aren't here because you're gamblers. You are here because you are terrible gamblers.

Bobby Riggs: Why should we give up the one thing in life that we really love? These folks don't need to stop what they're doing, they just need to get better at it... Who's dealing? Who's in?

Jack Kramer: Well, as I said... it's not that women can't play tennis, it's just that they can't deal with the pressure.
     Perhaps this will finally put a stop to women players demanding the same prize money as men. As we've seen today, they're simply... not in the same league. Let's face it, in business, politics, sports, you name it... whatever they like to think, at the very top it's a man's game.

Bobby Riggs: Now, don't get me wrong, I love women... In the bedroom and in the kitchen. But these days, they want to be everywhere! They want to be doing everything! Where is it gonna end? Pretty soon us fellas won't be able to go to a ballgame, we won't be able to go fishing. We won't be able to stop and have a drink after work. And that's what this whole women's lib thing is about. And it's got to stop.

Bobby Riggs: I'm gonna put the "show" back in "chauvinism."

Jack Kramer: You know the difference between a good player and a great? The great players never let emotion get in the way. It messes with their game.

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