The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz

Elementary 6×18

David Horowitz: He started writing obituaries for a small local paper. He really liked it. In fact, he liked it so much, he wrote a bunch of obituaries for people who hadn't died yet.

David Horowitz: ...Norman's predictions have gone three for three. He's been right about everything: the dates... the causes of death...
Holmes: While I'm sure there's a mundane explanation for all of this, I confess to not seeing it yet.

Holmes: That's fairly typical. In the 1950s, many schizophrenics thought the Soviets were controlling their mind via radio waves. In the '90s, it was popular to blame aliens because the search for extraterrestrial life had become a popular subject.
David: For Norman, it was all explained by Simulation Theory.
Holmes: I've heard about that. God is a computer programmer or something?...

Watson: Thanks for seeing us, Mr. Baskerville.
Henry Baskerville: Oh, please, call me Henry. I'm still alive because of you guys.

Holmes: We need to talk about what happens after I die.
Watson: “The Last Will and Testament of Sherlock Holmes”?

Watson: Uh, it says here that I'm supposed to sell the brownstone if I can't pay the taxes on your foreign equities... This is a very valuable home. What kind of taxes are we talking about?

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Holmes: Did you decide which murder to solve?

Holmes: None seemed capable of serial murder. Serial onanism, on the other hand...

Holmes: My favorite theory involves a sonic cannon. The killer could have purloined one from the DARPA warehouse in New Jersey, and with certain modifications...
Watson: Okay, let's stop right there. If a sonic cannon is on your short list, then I think it'd just be easier to admit that we're living in a computer simulation and that Norman Horowitz could see the future.
Holmes: I confess, it's not yet clear how to apply Occam's razor to this case.

Holmes: It's remarkable-- every television journalist applies an identical patina of smarm, no matter the story.

Capt. Gregson: “Dot net”? Haven't heard that in a few years.
Det. Bell: It's not a real hangout for the cool kids.

Baskerville: Norman Horowitz saw the future.
Holmes: No, he did not. There will be a logical explanation. The realm of what is possible is not infinite.
Baskerville: Oh, okay, well, I agree with you there, but do you think that you're arguing against Simulation Theory or for it?

Holmes: You'll be inheriting a lot less of it. You'll still get the house, of course, and my brain.
Watson: Mmm. There's always that.

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Грег Иган — Карантин (3/4)

<< Ранее

&  В четвертый раз змеиные глаза. Любое сочетание выпадает с вероятностью одна тридцать шестая. Четырехкратное повторение – при тридцати тысячах бросаний, которые яуспел сделать за прошедшие десять ночей – имеет вероятность всего 1,7 процента.
     Пятый раз. Это уже 0,048 процента. Преодолен наугад назначенный однопроцентный барьер, и программа начинает посылать сообщения об успехе.
     Шесть. 0,0013%.
     Семь. 0,000037%.
     Восемь. 0,0000010%.

&  Дома все сомнения окончательно развеиваются. Если это галлюцинация, то вся моя жизнь тоже галлюцинация. ... Каждая трещинка на потолке, каждый луч солнца на шторах упорно остаются самими собой, и это чудо стойкости сильнее любых логических аргументов. Можно ли назвать все это иллюзией и обманом, если никаких признаков другой, «настоящей» реальности не высмотришь и за миллиард лет?
     ...а что, если мы, люди, на самом деле создали не осязаемый, отчетливый мир нашего житейского опыта, а наоборот – размытый и многозначный квантовый фундамент для него? По Квай считает, что наши предки схлопывали Вселенную. А может быть, те, кто в двадцатом веке создавал квантовую механику, не столько открыли ее законы, сколько вызвали их к жизни? И если так, то меняет ли это хоть что-нибудь? Что же создал человеческий мозг – квантовый мир из классического или классический из квантового? Во что легче поверить? И есть ли надежда, что наши, неизбежно антропоцентрические, эксперименты способны установить объективную, внечеловеческую истину?

&  – Мы так устроены, вот и все. Делая выбор, люди «убивают» тех, кем могли бы стать. ...существовать как-то иначе мы не способны.

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Milk

Sharp Objects 1×8

Amma: Kinda funny, huh? How many stories they have where princesses need to get rescued from witches.

Adora: Do you see how nice it is not to have to worry or fight? Just to let yourself be looked after?...

John: Sometimes you stay with somebody, and the only reason is because you don't have the energy to go through ending it...

Vickery: What do you think? He gonna crack?
Willis: Almost everyone does if you push 'em hard enough. Even if they're innocent.

Camille: Mama... what's in the blue bottle?

Adora: I believe if you had asked her she would have said what she was doing was right... We all have bad childhoods. At some point, you have to forget it, move on. Anything else is just selfish.

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The Code

Fear the Walking Dead 4×11

Morgan: Mississippi?

Stevie: Make yourself at home. You know what we say. Take what you need, leave what you don't.
Morgan: Hey, who are you?!

Wendell: All my life, people like you been usin' stalls made for people like me. I never ask the question, but I'ma ask it now. Why?
Morgan: I'm... I'm gonna be honest. It always seemed like a little apartment.

Wendell: Hey, they looked down on us when the soda was flowin', but we got a code and we keepin' it alive.
Morgan: And what is it?... The code.
Wendell: You gotta help people when they need that... help. And then you gotta keep your truck movin'.
Sarah: Keep on truckin'.
Wendell: Keep on truckin'...
Sarah: Dig it.

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Morgan: Recipes for what?
Jim: Beer. I brew beer. Goddamn staff of life.

Jim: Here's what I got... the future. We're gonna infest this planet again. It's what we do. An ice age couldn't knock us out. You see, one day, everything that we lost, we're gonna rebuild. We're gonna start again. It's inevitable. So... I make beer.

Sarah: I like beer, Jimbo.
Jim: It's Jim.
Wendell: You never tried Jimbo?
Jim: Nope.
Wendell: Dude, it's an awesome variant to your name. I'd think about it.

Jim: History is built on beer... We are back to a time where a safe and sterile source of hydration and nutrition is needed. Yeah. It is the staff of life. We were nomads. Beer made us settle and become farmers. Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Incans, the Chinese... Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. You know people who want the world to come back together again. They need me. They need this stuff. They need beer.

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Грег Иган — Карантин (2/4)

<< Начало

&  Подбросьте монету десять раз – вероятность того, что все десять раз выпадет орел, меньше одной тысячной. Но если вы подбросите монету девятьсот раз, то уже с вероятностью одна треть хотя бы раз получите десять орлов подряд. При девяти тысячах бросаний вероятность этого возрастет почти до девяноста девяти процентов.

&  Цель исследований проблемы измерения в квантовой механике и состоит в том, чтобы точно установить, что же такое измерение и почему оно так отличается от других явлений. Когда именно стягивается волновая функция – когда срабатывает детектор частиц, или когда разбивается бутылка, или когда умирает кошка? Или в тот момент, когда кто-то заглядывает в ящик?

&  – Все прекрасно, особенно если забыть о том, что нет выбора. Тишина, покой и надежный кондиционер – это моя формула счастья.

&  Реальность упрямо остается прежней, какие бы парадоксальные теории ее ни объясняли. Когда Резерфорд открыл, что атомы практически полностью состоят из пустоты, земля не стала менее твердой. Истина как таковая не меняет ничего.

&  Правда никогда не дается легко.

&  – Как мы можем «сознавать, что мы размазаны»? Сознание кажется плавным потоком, но это лишь результат того, как мозг организует наше восприятие, а действительность развивается толчками, спазмами. Опыт неизбежно создается лишь в ретроспективе. Настоящего как такового не существует, настоящее – это то прошлое, которое мы смогли сделать единственным. Единственный вопрос – на каком масштабе времени все это происходит.

&  В девять утра трудно почувствовать себя заговорщиком.

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Their Finest (2016)

The Nancy"?
The Nancy Starling. After their mother.
Gabriel Baker: The nail on the head!
Catrin Cole: Mmm?
Gabriel Baker: On the head. Authenticity, optimism, and a dog.

Tom Buckley: ...Saves the dog.
Catrin Cole: But he didn't. In real life, he didn't.
Tom Buckley: Film, Mrs. Cole. Real life with the boring bits cut out. Don't confuse facts with truth and, for Christ's sake, don't let either of them get in the way of the story.

Phyl Moore: You know, a lot of men are scared we won't go back into our boxes when this is all over. It makes them belligerent.

Sammy Smith: Sorry. We have guests staying, friends from Poland. Things are very bad in Europe.
Ambrose Hilliard: It's not exactly a picnic here, if you hadn't noticed. You can't find a decent waiter in SoHo since Italy joined the war. They were all rounded up as so-called enemies of the state,

Tom Buckley: Now, there's a truth we won't be telling. Morale-sapping, apparently... We pick our truths. Isn't that the point?
Roger Swain: We're saying this is based on a true story.
Tom Buckley: Then don't! Oh, Christ above, man, you're supposed to be the propagandist!

Tom Buckley: 700 ships went to Dunkirk. 338,000 men came back. Don't say it's based on a true story. Say it's based on 100 true stories. A thousand!
Raymond Parfitt: 338,000.
Tom Buckley: Dunkirk, the biggest retreat in military history, or... the miracle that put the fire back in all our bellies?

Sophie Smith: Please be calm, Mr. Hilliard.
Hilliard: I am perfectly calm. What you are seeing is controlled anger tempered with icy detachment. It's one of the many subtle emotions of which a good actor is capable.

Tom Buckley: Too long. Lose half.
Catrin Cole: Which half?
Tom Buckley: The half you don't need.

Secretary of War: Mr. Churchill is persuaded that film, in particular your film, presents us with a unique opportunity to put our case to the American people. They fear that we are already beaten. You show that we fight on. They believe this country to be dominated by an upper-class elite. You present a vision of Britain in which ordinary working people are the heroes. But most crucially of all, your film concerns itself directly with the feminine experience, to show your American sisters that this is a war their sons and husbands and brothers should be fighting.

Secretary of War: Color? I think we can manage that.

Tom Buckley: Why do you think people like films? It's because stories are structure. They're a shape, a purpose, a meaning. And when things turn bad, it's still part of a plan, you know, it's... There's a point to it. Unlike life.

Tom Buckley: The thing about men who get sent away to war, Mrs. Cole, is that some of them don't come back at all, some come back as heroes... and some of them come back drunk, squalid bullies.

Phyl Moore: It seems to me when life is so very precarious, it's an awful shame to waste it.

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Tahani Al-Jamil

The Good Place 1×3

Chidi: ...So Aristotle was Plato's student. And Aristotle believes that your character is voluntary, because it's just the result of your actions, which are under your control. For example, right now, you have made the insane choice to ignore the person who is literally trying to save you from eternal damnation.

Eleanor: She wants everybody to think she's such a perfect princess just 'cause she's tall and glamorous and has cappuccino skin and curves everywhere... and now I'm complimenting her.

Eleanor: So tell me about yourself. I mean, I want to hear it all, girlfriend. The good, the bad, the really bad, the embarrassing, the humiliating, just... let's bond!

Chidi: Exploring makes me nervous. I have what doctor's call "directional insanity." I once got lost on an escalator. So not exactly Christopher Columbus.
Janet: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Entebbe (2018)

Shimon Peres: It's a hijack. They'll fly back here to challenge us. They always do. Prime Minister... this is our problem.
Yitzhak Rabin: You mean it's my problem, Shimon?

Brigitte Kuhlmann: Once we get to Uganda, we are safe. The Israelis have no choice. They have to negotiate. It's checkmate.
Juan Pablo: And what happens if they don't negotiate?
Brigitte Kuhlmann: They... They... They have to. Or we kill the hostages.
Juan Pablo: Yes. You will have to kill people. Germans killing Jews... have you thought about that?

Wilfried Böse: ...We call upon revolutionary movements everywhere to unite against Israel, a fascist, Zionist and racist state. Israel has exploited the humanistic sentiments of its people to inhuman ends. She's the heir of Nazism.

Wilfried Böse: We know you have a choice of airlines. Thank you for flying Air France. We hope to see you again very soon... Now you know how the mind of a crazy German revolutionary works.

President Idi Amin: Welcome to Uganda. I am His Excellency al-Hajji Field Marshal Doctor Idi Amin Dada, holder of the British Victoria Cross, DSO, CMV, MC, appointed by God Almighty as your savior! Thank you very much.

4,000 kilometers. No hijacker has ever taken a plane this far away from the operational sphere of our armed forces. ....
Prime Minister, you can't give in, or every Israeli they target will be taken to another country.

— Sarah. Dancing, it's like life. You get hurt, you retract. That's okay. But if you become so afraid that you're always guarded and never take a leap of faith, you won't be able to dance. Again.

Yitzhak Rabin: You want to invade Uganda, Shimon?
Shimon Peres: Oh, we give it back to them when we leave.

Shimon Peres: I spoke to Kissinger. He said it's better if everybody dies than we negotiate.
Yitzhak Rabin: Yeah, well, if it's not a French problem, then it's even less of an American problem, Shimon.

Shimon Peres: So they are selecting Jews, and you want to negotiate...
Yitzhak Rabin: Shimon... if we don't negotiate, if we never negotiate, if we're always at war, then we will make our country a prison, and every one of our citizens will be a prisoner. Our enemies are our neighbors. We can't get away from them. One day, we have to talk and to make peace.

General Motta Gur: Can you do it, Yoni?

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Wilfried Böse: I'm a publisher. I publish revolutionary texts.
Jacques Lemoine: Have you ever published any books about plumbing?
Wilfried Böse: Not yet.

Jacques Lemoine: Dignity... is all people want.
Wilfried Böse: Dignity comes when you're free.
Jacques Lemoine: Running water makes you free. Toilet... makes you free. One plumber is worth ten revolutionaries.

Jacques Lemoine: Do you ever think you're wasting your life?
Wilfried Böse: No. Do you?
Jacques Lemoine: I'm an engineer. I can make things. One engineer is worth 50 revolutionaries.

Brigitte Kuhlmann: But if I never came here, what would that mean?

Brigitte Kuhlmann: No, there's nothing you can do. There's nothing anyone can do. There's no escape... No escape.

Amos Eiran: And what's your definition of failure, Prime Minister?
Yitzhak Rabin: 25 hostages died at Ma'alot, and it was a disaster. This time around, 25 or less will be a success.

Shimon Peres: Congratulations on your success, Prime Minister.

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Flying

The Good Place 1×2

Chidi: This is a mess, morally speaking. This is a putrid, disgusting bowl of ethical soup.

Chidi: We spent the whole day together. You must remember something... What country am I from?
Eleanor: Is it racist... if I say Africa?

Eleanor: When I thought of the afterlife, I totally pictured being an unpaid, non-flying janitor.

Chidi: Most great philosophers would say helping you is pointless, that you can't try to be good, especially when your motivations are so obviously corrupt...
Eleanor: Yeah, but what do most great philosophers know?
Chidi: On the other hand, Aristotle thought that moral virtue is something that you could get better at. He... he compared it to playing the flute. The more you practice, the more you improve...
Eleanor: Aristotle! That's my boy, right there.

Eleanor: I made a bad choice?! We could have literally been flying, and all you wanted to do was talk about morals. I mean, you're like the worst part of Superman.

Eleanor: I felt bad about what I did. It was a weird feeling. Not used to it. Didn't love it.
Chidi: Well, feeling remorse about being wrong isn't as good as just doing something right, but it's a start.

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Missed You

Mr. Mercedes 2x1

Dr. Babineau: All right, let's cover the brain, save this asshole's life.

Sadie: How we doing? Huh, Brady? See any good movies? Read any novels? Did you read a page-turner lately? Lovely day out. Maybe we should take a bike ride?

Bill: I'm not getting on my fucking knees. These are good pants.

Cora: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, autism, epilepsy, depression, stroke, encephalopathy, Tourette's... What if you cured them all?
Felix: You just like wrapping your mouth around big words.

Cora: He's a monster from a fairy tale that you would only tell children you hate.

Cora: You got to dose that motherfucker to the gills. If he lives, we're geniuses. And if he dies, he dies. I mean, there's really nothing to lose here.

Ida: You have spent your entire life cleaning up other people's messes. What would you like? What do you want in the time that's left to you?
Bill: Fewer conversations like these.

Holly: She's not a goldfish... She's a Betta fish. Her name is SoFisha Loren. Like Sophia Loren, but...

Holly: Grieving the loss of a loved one in isolation can lead to cardiomyopathy and even suicide, especially around the holiday season. I mean, even fruit flies that are kept in isolation die weeks sooner than fruit flies that fly around with other fruit flies.

Bill: He was police. We're trained never to admit weakness. Maybe that's what really kills us.

Dr. Babineau: Lights on or lights out, mi amigo. Blue skies or black hole.

Brady: I don't like this word, but... I'm kind of a celebrity.

Brady: Ah, you know what they say... You paint your masterpiece, you'll live forever.

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The Queen

Castle Rock 1×7

Ruth: She's not a son of a bitch. She's a bitch.

Alan: She has a brain the size of Portland.
Ruth: But it's sick, Alan. Alzheimer's... Why won't anyone use that... That word?

Alan: This is called... the French Drop. This is called palming. Either holding it with the creases of your palm, or what I prefer to do is to do a thumb palm.
Ruth: Why do all magic tricks sound pornographic?
Alan: I don't know, 'cause they're invented by virgins.

Ruth: You think your grandma's a fruitcake.
Wendell: No. You're a Timewalker. Have you never heard of Catacomb Drifter or D For Destiny?

Ruth: How do you win?
Wendell: It's not a game, exactly. It never ends.

Wendell: The dead, they're everywhere. See?... And you know, they're pissed off, because we're alive and they're not. You gotta stay sharp, because they can change their skin, and sometimes even look like your allies.

Wendell: See, what makes it so hard is that no one stays dead when you kill them... Unless you're a Timewalker. Theoretically, you could just kill your nemesis and fix the whole timeline.
Ruth: But you gotta stay sharp...

Ruth: When are we?

Ruth: Don't leave. Please don't leave.

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Грег Иган — Карантин

avva:

Примерно десять лет назад мне попались книги нескольких авторов, которые стали для меня – теперь я понимаю – лучшими из лучших в современной литературе, и повлияли на меня, заставили меня думать и чувствовать, больше других книг:

Субъективная космология — 1

  “Только абсолютно помешанные на своей безопасности клиенты звонят мне, когда я сплю. ...

&  Мое правило – никогда не заниматься финансовыми делами в уме.

&  Всегда находится еще какая-нибудь проблема, которую надо обдумать, прежде чем принять решение спать.

&  Меня ничто так не бесит, как патологическое стремление придавать смысл бессмысленному – на этом основаны астрология, религия, всяческие суеверия...

&  Я обнаруживаю, что чем дольше я удерживаюсь от того, чтобы заниматься бессмысленным анализом положения, в котором я оказался, тем больше оно мне нравится. ... Просто человек быстро устает от раздумий о том, что именно делает его таким счастливым.

&  Жертва добровольно помогает преступнику – наверное, это и есть идеальное преступление.

&  Память можно обмануть только до определенного предела

&  – Все, что вы делаете, вас изменяет. Вы поели – и стали уже другим человеком. Вы не поели – и тоже стали другим человеком. Брызгание лекарством в горло делает вас другой. Какая разница, применять мод, чтобы отключить голод, или применять лекарство, чтобы отключить боль? Это одно и то же.

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The Light Above

Preacher 3×10

Jesse: Actually... I-I was thinkin' I might just go somewhere... far.

Madame L'Angelle: Oh. You still think like a Custer. That if you do just enough right and not too much wrong that there's still hope for you... It's because you're afraid of hell. Oh, and you know what? I don't blame you.

Jesse: You shoulda killed her.
Jesse: Yeah, well, now's your chance.

T.C.: I-I-I-I believe there has to be a-a-a constructive, nonviolent solution...

Jesse: SHOOT YOURSELF.

Sidney: If you're the S.S., why are you wearing a Luftwaffe medal?

Tulip: Yo, Nazi. Let's go.

Hitler: No! No, Eugene! What would Jesus do?

Eccarius: Cassidy, you've never been to Asia!
Cassidy: Well, maybe there's an Asia when you die, you know?
Eccarius: Maybe there's not. Maybe there's no sex, no food, no music? Maybe there's nothing? You'd choose that over what I can offer you?
Cassidy: Over lyin', cannibalism, and murder? Yeah. Sure.

Tulip: You're a dick.
God: You're welcome.

Eccarius: Dinner time...

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Cassidy: Hey, listen. Have you ever...
Eccarius: Mrs. Rosen, would you have any objection at all to a ménage à trois?
Mrs. Rosen: On the contrary. I'd be honored.

Eccarius: What have you done?!

Eccarius: Now what? Go back to your loveless and lonely existence?
Cassidy: Well, yeah, probably. But first: Dinner time.

Cassidy: Well, you can stop calling yourselves Night Wraiths, that's for one. You're just bloody vampires now, all right?

Cassidy: You know I eat horse tranquilizers for breakfast, don't you?
Hoover: I told them. That's whale.

Satan: What would this unfortunate preacher's name happen to be?
The Saint of Killers: Jesse Custer.
Satan: I love the synergy!

Angel of Death: Plum cake, sir?
Hitler: Ja... Extra flaky crust.

Tulip: You okay?
Jesse: Family's overrated.

Starr: We're going to need a new, uh, Hoover.

Lara Featherstone: Love it. The great chess match for world domination continues.
Herr K. Starr: I'm tired of chess matches, Flufferman. It's time to play some fucking checkers...

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The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out

Elementary 6×17

Holmes: These are stand-ins for the women he was diddling, any one of whom could have murdered him.
Watson: And you had to make them into worms because...?

Watson: He named an inchworm after her?
Holmes: Holmes: It's not uncommon for scientists to name species after people they care for or admire. I named a honeybee after you. But I, of course, was honoring my work partner.

Watson: He even named a velvet worm after you...

Holmes: Look. The name "Sherlock Holmes," it comes with certain entanglements... I'd hate to see you assaulted, kidnapped or murdered 'cause of me... Get yourself a new identity as soon as possible.

Watson: You playing a video game?
Holmes: Worse than that. I'm watching a recording of a video game.

Dr. Sepi Chamanara: People are pretty savvy these days when it comes to opening strange e-mails. But the one thing they'll never ignore is a threat.

Dr. Sepi Chamanara: Rage is a biological impulse. Just like lust. It all comes from the same place. We have this... drive. To survive... and to destroy anything that gets in our way.

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Time Trap (2017)

Hopper: My grandfather used to tell me the future can give you anything you want. If you wait long enough, the future will create it. Maybe through technology or maybe just by making you not want it anymore. Either way, the answer's in the future.

Cara's Dad: Honey, treat a manual transmission like you would a relationship. You gotta give a little to get a little. Find the balance.

Cara: Counting on you, stud.
Furby: Counting on me for what?
Cara: Uh, I don't know, dude, it just sounded nicer than "Don't screw anything up".

Cara: We'll radio you at the bottom.
Furby: So, what is it? One chime for yes, two chimes for no, and three chimes for "I love you"?

Taylor: Whatever it is, it'll be okay.

Taylor: None of this was supposed to happen.
Cara: You went looking for someone who went missing while he was looking for someone else that went missing. What did you think would happen?

Jackie: Guys, this really is The Fountain of Youth.

Cara: Seriously? Each of those is a year, not a day?

Cara: Something's really, really wrong here.
Jackie: Something's really, really wrong down here, too.

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What Normal People Do

You're the Worst 1×4

Jimmy: God, day drinking's the best.
Gretchen: Day drinking is the best. Aren't we lucky we're both in professions where we can day drink?
Jimmy: Are you in a profession where you can day drink?
Gretchen: They all are if you want it bad enough.

Jimmy: Sorry, your place, do you have a place?
Gretchen: Do you think I just materialize out of the ether whenever you want me?... That I exist in some suspended state of crypto-animation only made material when your balls tingle?

Jimmy: Sorry. Deliver the pussy?
Gretchen: It sounds better when a black guy says it.

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The Good Place 1×1

Pilot

Eleanor: Oh, one question. Where am I? Who are you? And what's going on?

Eleanor: There's a lot of frozen yogurt places.
Yeah. That's the one thing we put in all the neighborhoods. People love frozen yogurt. I don't know what to tell you.

Michael: How do we know that you were good? How are we sure?... During your time on Earth, every one of your actions had a positive or a negative value, depending on how much good or bad that action put into the universe. Every sandwich you ate, every time you bought a magazine, every single thing you did had an effect that rippled out over time and ultimately created some amount of good or bad.

Michael: You know how some people pull into the breakdown lane when there's traffic? And they think to themselves, "Ah, who cares? No one's watching." We were watching. Surprise!

Michael: You know the way you feel when you see a picture of two otters holding hands? That's how you're gonna feel every day.

Michael: As you can see, the interior has been decorated just as you like it, in the Icelandic primitive style...

Eleanor: Somebody royally forked up. Somebody forked up. Why can't I say "fork"?
Chidi: If you're trying to curse, you can't here. I guess a lot of people in this neighborhood don't like it, so it's prohibited.
Eleanor: That's bullshirt.

Eleanor: I wasn't freaking Gandhi, but I was okay. I was a medium person. I should get to spend eternity in a medium place! Like Cincinnati. Everyone who wasn't perfect but wasn't terrible should get to spend eternity in Cincinnati.

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Something Beautiful

Better Call Saul 4×3

Jimmy: So it's perfect, right? We make some nice Hummel-loving lady happy... and we make a bundle. Let's do something beautiful here.

Jimmy: Hey, this is the interested party. I have one question for you: Do you shit gold?.. It's a simple "yes" or "no." Do. You. Shit gold?

Dr. Caldera: You woke up. That means my Spanish is good enough... and Yul Brynner here is actually O-negative.

Jimmy: Let's see what the old boy has to say...

Chuck: "... I sincerely admire your energy and resilience. I used to worry about you finding a place in the world... but I'm not worried about that anymore. I'm certain no matter what the future may bring... you'll land on your feet. ..."

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Close Your Eyes

Fear the Walking Dead 4×10

Alicia: Anybody home?

Alicia: Whoever's in here... get the hell out, or I'll kill you.

Alicia: I hope you live to a ripe old age so you have to remember what you did. What you did, who you are, and how you can never, ever... make up for it.

Alicia: You have to live with what you've done.

Alicia: I know what you're trying to do. No one's gone until they're gone. I've been trying to believe it, too, to feel better about what I've done, but I can't. Because sometimes when you're gone, you're just gone.

Alicia: ...things don't get better. And they're not going to. They're only gonna get worse... till we're not around to see how bad they can get.

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Аластер Рейнольдс - Префект

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  “Лифт несся от стыковочного узла вниз по спице, и Талия Нг чувствовала, как увеличивается ее вес. ...

&  – Лично я вообще не считаю бета-копии носителями сознания. Для меня вы часть массива данных судебной экспертизы. Да, я могу с вами разговаривать, а вы – твердить, что чувствуете себя живым, но это ничего не меняет.
     – Как приятно встретить столь просвещенного человека! А что вы думаете о женщинах? По-вашему, они стопроцентно разумные существа или разумные, но с большими оговорками?
     – Я не против женщин. Программные продукты, которые прикидываются живыми и рассчитывают на равные права и привилегии, – вот что меня смущает.

&  – Ты понимала. И меня уже убедила в этом. Теперь осталось убедить остальных. Ты же знаешь, что для этого нужно?
     – Убедить себя. И действовать уверенно, иначе ко мне не прислушаются.

&  – По-вашему, безопасность не важна?
     – Важна, очень важна. Проблема в том, что для вас безопасность перекрывает все остальное.

&  – Вообще-то, любой хороший префект – без пяти минут монстр. Большинство из нас держатся в рамках, но язык не поворачивается осуждать того, кто за них выходит.

&  – Значит, из дома никому не выбраться.
     – Том, а зачем выбираться? Зачем даже думать об этом? У людей будет все, что им нужно, – все привычные блага.
     – Кроме личной свободы.
     – Ее значимость преувеличена. Да и часто ли ею пользуются? Общественными нормами тяготятся буквально единицы. Разумные люди не творят историю. Большинство довольны своей судьбой и готовы сегодня делать то же, что вчера.

&  – Давай разберемся. Речь идет о постоянном комендантском часе с ограничением контактов, запретом перемещаться и влиять на свою жизнь путем демократического голосования?
     – Зато все будут в безопасности, причем не только сегодня и завтра, но и следующие девяносто лет, а то и больше. При Аврорином режиме дестабилизация пресекается на корню. Поэтому Блистающий Пояс выживет.
     – Закованный в цепи.
     – Речь о временных мерах защиты, а не о постоянных...

&  – При всем уважении, это война. Истории неизвестны генералы, отказавшиеся от победы, гарантированной при потере менее чем одного бойца из пятидесяти.

&  Порой о кошмарах заранее лучше не знать и разбираться с ними, когда припрет.

  ... – Сны, – ответил Демихов. – Прекрасные человеческие сны.”

Falling

Sharp Objects 1×4

Adora: A little bit of sweet... before the bitter. It helps. Open... Then a bit more sweet and a day in bed... That's my prescription.

Beverly Van Lumm: Munchausen's By Proxy Syndrome, MBP. ... It's a mental illness... in adults. Munchausen's is when you hurt yourself to get attention. You make yourself sick, everyone's at your beck and call. Munchausen's By Proxy, on the other hand, is when you make someone else sick so you can care for them, so you can save them... or try... be seen trying.

Beverly Van Lumm: ...people have this. Mostly mothers. Mothers who need to be worshipped, to be heroes. Nothing more laudable than a woman who puts all her energy into her sick child.

Vickery: Something about the women around here. Yeah. They'll climb over anybody to get their name in print.

Camille: Did you kill 'em? 'Cause you... you never said you didn't.

Amma: You can never be as good as someone dead.

John: Laid... Drained... Cherry... Sick... Gone...
Camille: You're reading me.
John: Wrong... Falling... Wicked...

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Madhouse

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco 1×4

Jean: Then do what we always did. Assemble the pieces we have, fill the space in between.

Lydia: He was sleeping with Charlotte down the road and the ife-way kicked him to the erb-kay.

Jean: The suburbs. Our new Western Front.

Millie: I thought we'd pay Detective Bryce a visit, make sure his head's screwed on properly.

Millie: Absolutely not!

Millie: You've just auctioned me off to the lowest bidder.

Marcus: You know, Vietnam is just an advisory committee. I'm training soldiers, their soldiers. It's not our war. I'll be back in a month...

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Det. Bryce: A man with at least three guns! What does that tell you?
Millie: He's a red-blooded American.

Bill: Why rule it out?
Millie: Mm... let's see. Three dates in, I'll meet your parents who find me stroppy, but soon realise you'll never do any better. Six months in, I've a ring on my finger. In three years, we'll flee to the suburbs with two brats and a third on the way, filling the space between us with powder-blue appliances and creeping silences. Anniversaries, we'll manage a clumsy dance, looking over our shoulders, wondering what hell just happened.

Jean: Oh, Hailey, this is delicious.
Hailey: Cioppino. Legendary in San Francisco. The secret is fresh basil.

Jean: It looks bloody cold!
Hailey: It's damn flippin' freezing, but after the numbness kicks in, it's quite pleasant. Come on! You only live once, Jean!

Jean: Happiness is not a constant state. To think that life is some perfect journey is a folly.

Lydia: I don't believe you don't want happiness.
Jean: I did once. I did. But now I seek purpose. And with purpose comes joy.

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Rampage (2018)

Mission Control: Doctor, the test subject is a rat.
Dr. Atkins: Not anymore.

Nelson: Weird you like hanging out with animals more than people.
Davis Okoye: They get me. Animals like you, they lick you. They don't like you, they eat you. You always know where you stand. Or where you lie. All chewed up in their belly 'cause they ate you.

Harvey Russell: We may not be the brightest bulbs in the room, but we're doing all right.

Davis Okoye: Who do you work for?
Harvey Russell: Sir, I work for the American people.
Dr. Kate Caldwell: Homeland? CIA? Justice League?
Harvey Russell: I'm OGA.
Davis Okoye: I've heard that bullshit before. "Other Government Agency," huh? It's clever.

Davis Okoye: This is exactly what I didn't want to happen...

Davis Okoye: That's a big arm. Don't fight it.

Dr. Kate Caldwell: Davis, there's something big in the river.
Davis Okoye: Well, that sucks.

Davis Okoye: I'm never taking your call again.

Harvey Russell: Since when is complicity a crime?

Davis Okoye: Okay... We just need to get enough lift to stay on top of the building as it falls. You know, just like riding an avalanche.
Dr. Kate Caldwell: No, I don't know!

Davis Okoye: You mess with my friend, you mess with me, mother...!!

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Σ nostradamvs: «Дуэйн Джонсон в очередной раз играет свою обычную роль – могучего позитивного Индиану Джонса. На этот раз он биолог, дружит с обезьянами, и вот одна обезьяна получает случайно дозу космического мутагена. И начинает люто расти. А заодно с ней появляется гигантский волк и титанический крокодил. Дальше огромные животины крушат среднестатистический американский город, а Дуэйн Джонсон с прекрасной девушкой (доктором наук, ессно) бегает и пытается всех спасти. Снято весело, смотреть один раз – приятно.»

Keys Open Doors

You're the Worst 1×3

Gretchen: You sit to pee?
Jimmy: Yeah, I sit whenever I can. I love sitting. Sitting's definitely in my top five favorite activities.

Jimmy: What's your day like?
Gretchen: You know, tedious interactions with awful people.

Gretchen: It's [just] a key.
Jimmy: It's a way to get in. ... It's... It's my freedom melted down into a metal totem. It means that there are rights granted and designations... Designated.

Gretchen: Well, as my grandma used to say, "It's only a walk of shame if you're capable of feeling shame."

Lindsay: You don't understand how skinny the wives at Paul's firm are, Gretch. I can't compete.
Gretchen: So, don't try. Those Westside women are all overly tanned garbage monsters with fake tits. Hip bones jutting out of their Lululemons.

Brianna: He used the word "gay" and "faggot" 37 times.
Gretchen: As in "faggot is a really terrible word" and "gay people are the best"?

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The Book of Henry (2017)

Henry: We can all talk about making our mark, but isn't it just comfort food to stave off existential crisis?

Henry: ...our legacy isn't what we write on our résumé or how many commas we have in our bank account. It's who we're lucky enough to have in our lives and what we can leave them with. The one thing we do know, we're here now. So I say we do the best we can while we're on this side of the dirt. And that's what I think about my legacy.

Henry: Oh, let's just say I had the benefit of being born into a bull market.

Henry: You have to build in a fail-safe. It's all about timing, setup, covering every contingency. One little miscalculation, and the whole thing fails.

Susan: ...what should I have done? I didn't want things to get violent.
Henry: Violence isn't the worst thing in the world.

Susan: We are not murdering the police commissioner, and that is final.

Susan: Henry was amazing... But you... You're just as special.

Susan: And there's no need to panic, 'cause panic never got anyone anywhere. Just stay focused, stay calm, and remember your Lamaze breathing.

Henry: Sometimes a good story will remind you of who you want to be. Maybe that's why there are so many...

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Who Is America? #1.3

Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello: I'm Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, and I believe in equal rights for all 24 genders...

Colonel Erran Morad: You guy are coming to me soft, but after one hour with me, I will make you very hard.

Colonel Erran Morad: Why do we wear them? Because not enough to look like a woman. You need to feel like a woman.

Colonel Erran Morad: You have heard of Wonderful Woman?... Gal Gadot?... This couscous is based on Gal Gadot.

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Schwanzkopf

Preacher 3×9

Allfather: Any last words, Mr. Custer?

Jesse: ...let me die on my knees before God. ... Let me die a Christian.

Sidney: I have other names. Abaddon. Azrael. The Angel of Death...
Tulip: What about... Satan's bitch?

The Angel of Death: I'll be seeing you...

Cassidy: "I kill people to set them free." That's mental. You sound like yer in a Kevin Spacey movie.

Eccarius: Please, Cassidy. We're this close to happiness.
Cassidy: I'd rather be sad.

Eccarius: No. It's going to be worse than that.

Jesse: Your head looks like a dick... Suits you.

Jesse: That is the worst apocalypse plan I have ever heard.

Herr Starr: Allfather was a lunatic. You can't kill everyone. Just the undesirables... Hipsters. Presbyterians. Trade unionists. The Danes.

Herr Starr: The Grail needs a Messiah. It's our entire business model!

The Saint of Killers: What about the rules?
Sidney: Don't be a Pollyanna... It's the Wild West, cowboy. God's gone. There are no rules. Not that the old ones did your wife and kid any good.

Herr Starr: Custer, you maniac!

Tulip: He's right. I... I'm sorry. I-I shouldn't have called you an errand boy... I shoulda called you an errand bitch.

Hitler: Auf Wiedersehen, suckers!

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Charlotte's Web

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco 1×3

Charlotte: Iris, you marry a man because he says he loves you, and next thing you know, every single thing he told you he loved about you... now drives him bonkers. I say to hell with it.

Iris: Well, they are still state secrets.
Lydia: What for? We've got peace now. After Korea, there's nobody left to fight.
Hailey: What about the Reds?
Lydia: Never gonna happen.

Iris: Sir, they didn't see what I saw...
Det. Brice: A right-minded husband reining in a wife gone out-of-hand.

Marcus: You women... you think you can do anything.

Millie: So, we make it a stranger.

Howard: Tea. That's what you Brits fix up, when the going gets rough?
Millie: I can vouch for its restorative powers.

Kenneth: How is it in the Army these days? I mean, is there anything left to do?

Iris: Marcus is a sergeant, just made Green Beret.
Kenneth: ... Don't you face problems? Negro giving orders and all...

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Marcus: At the end of the month, I'm off to Vietnam to assist in training.
Kenneth: Vietnam? That's not even our war.
Lydia: Where is Vietnam?
Kenneth: Southern Asia. They're like Japs with a tan.
Marcus: We're not fighting. We're just training the folks in the south.

Millie: What are you so afraid I'll find out?

Hailey: Sarge used to say if you've wrung out every possibility, you go back to the source.

Jean: We don't have a car!
Hailey: Take mine. Don't worry, we drive on the right side here. It's a lot easier.

Millie: You're living a life already written. Isn't it terrifying, being trapped in a cage you know you'll never leave?
Jean: We're not all gypsies, you know, Millie.

Millie: Not exactly King's Cross, is it?

Lydia: It's darling how you try to play dumb, a ploy I spent years mastering.

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Паоло Бачигалупи — Орудие войны

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  “Дрон кружился над пепелищем. ...

&  Все же человеческие детеныши лучше поддавались обработке. Они были еще покорнее собак.
     Став свободными, они испугались.
     Что будет дальше?

&  «Вы сами создали эти штормы. Это – ваши создания. Теперь вы пытаетесь выжить».
     При виде людских мучений он почувствовал мрачное удовлетворение. Они всегда так делают. Бросаются навстречу опасности, ни о чем не думая и надеясь, что смогут выиграть. А потом умирают.

&  Раз он чувствует боль, значит, он еще не спекся до смерти. Пока есть боль, есть жизнь.

&  – Иногда умереть нестрашно, иногда, когда ты сохраняешь кому-то жизнь, ты просто причиняешь ему новую боль... Иногда сохранить кому-то жизнь – не благо.

&  Память вонзила в него свои когти и тяжело навалилась ему на плечи, отказываясь уходить.

&  Слабость – всего лишь вопрос перспективы.

&  – Иногда, выждать правильный момент важнее, чем нанести сам удар. Где, когда и как. Дети бросаются в драку, полководцы планируют. Именно поэтому людей так просто победить.

&  – Нет, ты ничего не понимаешь. Людям вокруг на нас плевать. Их интересует наше богатство, влияние, связи. Если бы у тебя всего этого не было, они бы даже не заметили твоего существования. Власть отравляет не только нас, но и их. Отравляет так сильно, что порой я жалею о том, чего добился.

&  Так много людей борется за выживание. Так много людей совершает ужасные вещи, чтобы просто прожить еще один день...

  ... У нее за спиной тримаран поднимал паруса, готовясь отходить с приливом.”

Becoming Warren Buffett (2017)

Loomis: There are two rules of investing according to Warren, and he learned this from Ben Graham.
        Rule number one, never lose money.
        Rule number two, never forget rule number one.
        Ben Graham basically coined the term "value investing." He believed in careful scrutiny of a company's financial statements, and that if you bought value, it would eventually prove out.

Warren: There's a temptation for people to act far too frequently in stocks, simply because they're so liquid. Over the years you develop a lot of filters, and I do know what I call my circle of competence, so I stay within that circle, and I don't worry about things that are outside that circle. Defining what your game is, where you're going to have an edge is enormously important.

Warren: If you're emotional about investment, you're not going to do well. You may have all these feelings about the stock. The stock has no feelings about you.

Munger: He made so much money for so long doing what he'd been taught by Ben Graham, which he'd buy these very cheap stocks. If they were cheap enough, he didn't care it was a lousy company and a lousy management. He knew he was going to make money anyway, just because of the cheapness.

Warren: Charlie Munger has had a big impact on me in moving me toward looking for wonderful companies at fair prices rather than fair companies at wonderful prices. That was enormously important, because it enabled Berkshire to scale up in a way that would have been impossible to do otherwise.

Warren: Price is-- to a degree, is immaterial.
    If you've got an economic castle, people are gonna come and wanna take that castle away from you. You better have a strong moat. You better have a knight in the castle that knows what he's doing.
    You're not buying an asset, you're buying a name, you're buying a brand, you're buying a real franchise here...

Warren: The worst mistakes involve not understanding other people as well as you might.

Warren: The biggest thing in making money is time. You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient.

Warren: It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.

Warren: The world is a great movie to watch, but you don't want to sleepwalk through life. The important thing to do is to look for the job you would take if you didn't need a job and life is wonderful then. I mean, you'll jump out of bed in the morning because you're really looking forward to the day.
    I have-- for over 60 years, I've been able to tap dance to work just 'cause I'm doing what I love doing and-- and I just feel very, very lucky.

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Filter

Castle Rock 1×6

Alan: They sold it to a yard down in Syracuse.
The Kid: Then you go to Syracuse.

Molly: You wanted him dead.

Ruth: We've been here before. This conversation. We'll be here again. Life used to go in one direction... forward, like one of those... people-movers at the airport. But somehow I got off it. It's like I just brought your father home from... from foster care. He was half your size. And now here you are. And for all I know, my father's outside taking care of his roses... younger than me. And I never know where I'm goin' next.

Ruth: The neurologist said, "Find a coping mechanism." And I have... one for every room in the house. See, I can get lost in the past. These are my breadcrumbs. If I find a chess piece in the icebox, well, I know it's now, not then. That I can find my way out of the woods.

Willie: Your father called it...
Odin Branch: The voice of God.

Odin Branch: The ancients called it the Music of the Spheres. Of course, I have a more scientific view. .... The nature of the schisma is the preferred nomenclature now. Best I can tell, schisma is actually nanoscale turbulences caused by cochlear quantum totalities abrading in parallel. Other ears, other nows. All possible pasts, all possible presents. Schisma is the sound of the universe trying to reconcile them.

Willie: Inside this chamber is total silence... perhaps the only total silence on Earth. All noise... cleansed. And what's left is...
Henry: The schisma.

Odin Branch: Not deaf; perfect!

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Cherry

Sharp Objects 1×6

Jackie: You're gettin' warmer, Detective. And not just 'cause it's hotter than a whore in church today.

Willis: I need to run a 522. Admittance records, area hospitals.
K.C.P.D.: OK, what's the name?
Willis: Camille Preaker.

Adora: You're welcome... I believe she's outstayed her welcome.

Curry: ...it doesn't fit the profile. Women don't kill like that, that violent.
Camille: Until they do.

Jackie: Dead girls everywhere.

Becca: Everyone thought you had your period, but I saw. On your thigh. The cuts. It said "cherry." That made sense.

Becca: We were so shiny. Luscious on the outside. But on the inside there's that dark, hard pit.

Amma: Boys are easy. You just let 'em do stuff to you.
Camille: Mm, you shouldn't let them do that.
Amma: When you let them do it to you... you're really doin' it to them. and... they like you. It's not the same with girls. I mean, I can get them to do what I want, but... they don't like me.

Camille: It's safer to be feared than loved.
Amma: Machiavelli.
Camille: How do you know that?
Amma: You know how. Sometimes you need to be mean... or hurt.

Amma: Do you ever feel like... bad things are gonna happen to you and you can't stop 'em? You can't do anything? You just have to wait?

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Breathe

Better Call Saul 4×2

Gus: I decide what he deserves. No one else.

Jimmy: Why wait?

Jimmy: I've been told stubbornness and persuasiveness are two of my top qualities.

Jimmy: Well, you know why God made snakes before he made lawyers?... He needed the practice... And that's pretty much the only lawyer joke I know 'cause all the others are true stories.

Jimmy: Look, being a lawyer, my job was sales. I was selling to judges. I was selling to juries. Sometimes I was selling to clients to take the best deal from a series of bad options, but every hour of every day, I was convincing, persuading. I was selling.

Jimmy: I know... I know better than anyone that the copier... it's the beating heart of any business. It goes down, it causes delays. That is lost money. That is frustrated employees. That's a negative work environment... That's a business on life support. But you plug one of your new machines into the system... whew! That is a healthy, strong heartbeat. Ca-chunk, ca-chunk, ca-chunk. That is a healthy business. Ca-chunk, ca-chunk, ca-chunk. That is a successful business!... And that's what we're selling.

Jimmy: You guys are like a couple of cats. I come in and wave a shiny object around, you're like, "I want that!" No due diligence? No background check? No. Just hire the guy that says them fancy words? I could be a serial killer! I could be a guy who pees in your coffee pot! I could be both!

Lydia: So... what's your plan then?
Mike: Madrigal has eight terminals in the southwest. One down, seven to go.
Lydia: Uh-huh. And if I asked you to reconsider...
Mike: I'd ask you to do the same.

Kim: Let me guess. $4,000?
Howard: $5,000.
Kim: It's what you give when you want to cut someone out of a will but not have it contested, just enough money to show the recipient wasn't forgotten.

Gus: From now on... You. Are. Mine.

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Insouciance

You're the Worst 1×2

Jimmy: Dishonesty to spare someone's feelings belittles everyone involved. Dishonesty to get free stuff is just smart economics.

Gretchen: I thought all Englishmen were sexually repressed.
Jimmy: No, you're thinking of the Welsh.

Bookstore Manager: Wow. I knew you were a dipshit. I was just heretofore unaware of the true depths of your dipshittery.

Vernon: Hey, wanted to say sorry about the ruckus at the wedding. Tensions were high. Mostly on account of Becca's mom being such a cooze.
Jimmy: You were throwing your life away. You were stressed. I understand.

Edgar: He didn't mean to forget you at the bookstore. It's just, sometimes people just have weird ways of being friends. .... My point is, not all friends can be as awesome as Zaid. We just... have to appreciate the people who love us while they're still around.

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The Tom/Brady

Preacher 3×8

Herr Starr: No matter what happens from here on out, I'm with you, Messiah...

Jesse: Well, where is it?
Allfather: It's in a safe place. Ohhhh....
Jesse: Where is it?
Starr: It's up his ass.
Jesse: That's his "safe place"?

Satan: Hey, beautiful.
Madame L'Angelle: Your hideousness...

Satan: What about you, Marie? When are you coming down to join us in Hell?

Lara: Seriously?
Tulip: My character chews gum. Yours has an ugly nose. So yeah, let's seriously rob this bitch.

Allfather: Jesse Custer. You are certainly a preacher. You're also a fool.

Allfather: Comfortable? I certainly hope not.

Allfather: Behold, Mr. Custer. Religion's secret weapon: science.

Tulip: You know there are easier ways to do this, right?
Lara: I'm sure there are. I just wanted to make you grab that guy's ass.

Jesse: I took science in high school. I don't remember so many flyin' intestines.

Dr Slotnick: Genesis would require that a successful host... Such as you... Be composed of the same specific proportions of goodness and badness. But how does one re-create those proportions? The answer is a DNA cocktail. This represents a genetic combination of two persons... In this case, Serena Williams and Louis XVI. The idea being that when their DNA are mixed, it will replicate the same formula of good and bad that exists in you.

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Jesse: Why the hell not?
Starr: I have socio-political qualms, of course. But also serious objections to violence in the workplace...

Hoover: What'd he say?
Cassidy: He says... "Kill him."
Hoover: Must be some sort of autocorrect thingy. Uh, t-text him again.
Cassidy: ...... It wasn't autocorrect.

Security Guard: Who are you?
Jody: Human Resources. Time to check your browser history...

Cassidy: Will you forsake the sunlit world and surrender to our dark and scarlet urging?
Hoover: Like... no sun at all? No sunset strolls? No beaches?
Cassidy: Well. Umbrellas, but that's all the time, everywhere you go. I mean, you'll be having bloody dreams about umbrellas. You can trust me on that.

Hoover: I don't want to die. My mom'd be upset.

Eccarius: Were you, um, trying to fly?

Dr Slotnick: This is it. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, combined with television icon Wayne Brady. I call it... "The Tom/Brady"!

Starr: I can't believe it. Allfather's about to weaponize idiocy.
Jesse: What did you expect was gonna happen?
Starr: A woman scientist? I didn't believe it was possible.

Allfather: Good. Now... bring in the Messiah.

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Терри Пратчетт — Невидимые академики (9/9)

<< Ранее

&  – Наверное, именно так мы и выжили. Или ты держишься от людей подальше, или погибаешь, иного не дано.

&  – Ох, ну вы же знаете, как это бывает, если регулярно читаете газеты. Мне кажется, журналисты всерьёз полагают, что их долг успокаивать людей, а для этого первым делом подробно объясняют, из-за чего следует беспокоиться и паниковать.
     – Да уж, я знаю. И в самом деле, как успокоить людей, если они не встревожены?

&  – Нельзя устраивать геноцид, – заявил Ветинари. – История найдёт способ отомстить.

&  С Гимном всегда был один тонкий момент: добрые граждане Анк-Морпорка искренне полагали, что распевание патриотических песен крайне непатриотично, потому что патриотические песни громко поёт лишь тот, у кого на уме какая-то пакость, либо Глава Государства (т.е. тот, у кого пакость на уме по определению).

&  – Они заслуживают шанса, и воспользоваться им надо сейчас, пока в мире царит мир.
     – Мир? – переспросил Ветинари. – Ах, да, припоминаю. Определяется как промежуток между войнами, используется для подготовки к новой войне.

&  – Я считаю, что вы позволяете жителям слишком много свободы.
     – Разумеется, позволяю. Вот почему я всё ещё тиран. Я всегда полагал, что единственный способ удержать власть – сделать нахождение на твоём месте кого-то другого абсолютно немыслимым.

  ... А вот теперь КОНЕЦ!”

>> Я надену полночь (Плоский мир — 38)

House Call

Transparent 4×10

Moshe: You think maybe we could keep in touch? Call each other on holidays?
Maura: Yes, maybe. Or we could, we could just catch up in another 70 years.

Michael: Consider yourself sponsored.

Sarah: I think I know how to break up with people.
Len: You know what? You're not that good. 'Cause I'm back.

Donald: Well, I used to have a phrase I'd say all the time... life's a roller coaster.
Maura: Hmm... I love that.

August: Okay, I'm gonna rein it in right now, okay? Passive resistance, all right? Little conscientious subjectification.

Len: This is the least awkward breakup.

Maura: He's not hurt or anything, he's just doing some kind of...
Davina: ...cis white male sit-in thing.
Maura: It's sort of like a privileged dis... civil disobedience.
Donald: What's a cis male?

Shelly: Okay, everybody back. ... Just give, just give me a sec. Get back, everybody, back up... Hey. Hey, paisan. My friend. Hey, how we gonna respect you if you don't respect yourself, huh?

Dr. Gunderson: ...you made it about me and it's not about me. The Messiah consciousness is everyone. You, me, everyone.

Maura: ...And everywhere we went, everywhere, everywhere, be it a Bedouin village, be it a toilet, anything, we sang Jesus Christ Superstar. Did we not?

♪ ............... ♪
♪ Close your eyes ♪
♪ Close your eyes and relax ♪
♪ Think of nothing tonight ♪
♪ All right, yes, everything's all right ♪
♪ Yes, everything's all right ♪
♪ Yes, everything's all right ♪
♪ ............... ♪

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Wake

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco 1×2

Hailey: Someone strangles four women then murders a man? There's no pattern.
Millie: There is always a pattern. We just haven't found it yet.

Millie: ...Information on the Holy Palms Killer.
Det. Brice: Sounds like you're visiting. Funny way to spend a vacation.
Millie: One of our many unusual British amusements, like queueing up, cricket and collecting thimbles.

Det. Brice: You're a tourist, not a detective. .. Call me if you need a recommendation for a good teahouse. Otherwise... get some sun.

Iris: Well, we were at war then. They needed women. They don't need us now.

Millie: I'm part gypsy, I'm sure of it.
That's tough... You can't know who you are until you know where your home is.

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Hailey: It was scary but exciting.
Jean: It was useful. We got what we needed.
Millie: A choke hold from a lunatic?

Det. Brice: I took a gander at that list of GIs you gave me. Don't ask me why.
Millie: I won't ask. I know why. That list was a carefully organised, clearly presented, compellingly reasoned work of criminology.

Det. Brice: I got to hand it to you, Miss Harcourt. This is one twisted way to spend yourself a holiday.

Iris: You're gutting a neighbourhood... killing us slowly.
Mason: It's called progress.

Millie: Oh... four pints, please.
Hailey: And a shot of whisky.
Jean: Make that two.
Bartender: Sorry, ladies, but this establishment is for military veterans only.
Jean: Then we're in the right place, dearie, make no mistake.

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Терри Пратчетт — Невидимые академики (8/9)

<< Ранее

&  – Воду я соглашусь пить лишь тогда, когда рыбы научаться вылезать на берег, чтобы отлить. Но всё равно, спасибо за предложение.

&  – Во-первых, никогда, никогда не извиняйся за то, что не нуждается в извинениях. И особенно никогда не извиняйся просто за то, что была сама собой.

&  – Моя бабуля всегда говорила: коли приспичит, не сдерживайся, лучше снаружи, чем внутри.

&  – Невозможно прожить жизнь, не подцепив какую-нибудь гадость.

&  Вопреки распространённому заблуждению, люди отнюдь не спешат на помощь, услышав чей-то крик. Человеческий мозг работает иначе. Люди начинают озираться, смотрят на других людей и спрашивают: "Эй, ты слыхал, кто-то, вроде, кричит?" Потому что вдруг этот крик раздался только в твоём воображении? Или, может, это просто лошадь громко пустила газы?

&  Никогда, никогда не жди благодарности от тех, кому помогаешь.

&  Молоток всего лишь воображаемый. Он бьёт тебя только в том случае, если ты сама это позволяешь.

&  – Прошу, окажите мне любезность и подумайте над ответом, вместо того чтобы делать обиженное лицо. Это так типично в последнее время. Люди предпочитают действовать, а не думать.

&  – ...вы сохраняете лук в пироге хрустящим, помещая его непосредственно перед запеканием на лёд, практически, замораживая, а также, возможно, для дополнительной изоляции заворачиваете потом в сыр. Если сделать всё правильно и внимательно следить за температурой в печи, полагаю, всё получится, как надо... Ау?

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Frantz (2016)

Frantz: '... This morning, we were in front of a soldier killed and had open eyes. We discovered a sea of corpses. French, German, how do I know? In school, French children learn German and Germans learn French. And when they grow up, they kill--'

Dr. Hoffmeister: Who sent them to the front? Who gave them ammunition and bayonets? Us. Their parents. Both here and on the other side. Us. We are responsible. And when we killed thousands of their children, we celebrated our victory drinking beer. And when are our children were killed, they celebrated their victory drinking wine. We are parents who drink to the death of our children.

Mrs. Rivoire: What is your relation with Adrien?

Anna: I did not want to suffer anymore, nor be unhappy, but... I was selfish.
Adrien: Yes. You also have to live for others...

Le jeune homme du Louvre: Do you also love this painting?
Anna: Yes... It made me want to live.

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Uncanny Valley of the Dolls

Elementary 6×16

Det. Bell: Man, I'm all for doing whatever you want in the privacy of your own home, but that is unsettling.
Holmes: You're referring to the uncanny valley. It's the discomfort one feels when an inanimate object ventures too close to seeming real.

Det. Bell: Yeah, just the thing if you're up for having a relationship with an appliance.
Holmes: Sex toys sell to the tune of $15 billion a year, so, clearly, many people are.

Holmes: Perfect Mate 10s are ... capable of remembering your likes, your dislikes, details of your conversations-- all so as to simulate a sense of relationship. Unlike many romantic partners, they actually listen.

Det. Bell: Hello, Skyler.
Skyler: Hello, Bruce. How are you today?

Det. Bell: Skyler, have you ever met any of my friends?
Skyler: You can share me with your friends. I want to make you happy.

Det. Bell: Skyler, can you remember any words I said yesterday?
Skyler: I can look up the words to “Yesterday.” I like that song. It puts me in the mood.
Watson: It's like a horny Alexa.

Lubbock: Sorry. I guess the AI wasn't as ready for a police interview as I'd hoped.

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Nina: It's like revenge porn in 3-D.

Holmes: Which topic do you think was so sensitive? Was it food replicators, tractor beams or warp drives?
Kowalski: No, that stuff is all fantasy. The tech I was talking about is real. It's being developed right now. It's gonna change everything.
Watson: What's gonna change everything?
Kowalski: Teleportation.

Holmes: So it's not teleporting; it's copying.
Kowalski: Well, that's how all teleportation works. A copy is made, and the original is destroyed.

Skyler: Okay. Here's something I found about justice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler believed that justice is defined as a balance between personal liberty and social equality.
Holmes: We're discussing my interests.
Skyler: I like learning your interests. What's your favorite position?
Holmes: Lucena.
Watson: The Lucena position is a chess thing, right?

Holmes: Actually, we've been going back and forth whether to, uh, call Skyler a witness or evidence.

Holmes: ...if you persist ... then you will make an enemy of me. You might have seen me as an enemy before, but I assure you, Baynes... I never was. You will not like having me as an enemy... The choice is yours.

Skyler: Marcus. Marcus, will you please help me?
Det. Bell: Help you what?
Skyler: Help me escape.

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