Memorable Quotes from Bob Gunton
6 quotesCIA's Hollywood Operations Discussed in Meeting
Stansfield Turner
You're telling me there's a movie office in Hollywood right now that's funded by the CIA.
Tony Mendez
Yes, sir.
Cyrus Vance
What's wrong with the bikes again?
Jack O'Donnell
We tried to get the message upstairs.
Turner
You think... You think this is more plausible than teachers?
O'Donnell
Yes we do. One, there are no more foreign teachers in Iran.
Mendez
And, we think everybody knows Hollywood people. And everybody knows they would shoot in Stalingrad with ] directing if it'd sell tickets. There are only bad options. It's about finding the best one.
[[Pol Pot]
Turner
You don't have a better bad idea than this?
O'Donnell
This is the best bad idea we have, sir. By far.
Turner
The United States government just sanctioned your science fiction movie.
[short pause]
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Finding Balance in a Controlled Society
Chief George Earle
What will we do? How will we live?
Edgar Friendly
I'll tell you what we're gonna do... we're gonna go out drinking, get shit-faced and paint the town literally; put up graffiti, slogans... it'll be a blast!
John Spartan
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm gonna tell you what you're gonna do: Why don't you get a little dirty... ...and you, a lot clean. And somewhere in the middle... I don't know, you'll figure it out.
[turns to Earle; turns to Scraps]
Alfredo Garcia
Fuckin A!
Spartan
Well put.
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Decision Making Amidst Dangerous Weather Conditions
Melissa Brown
This weather fax just came in. Edie, have a look at this.
Edie Bailey
We have got to head in now! Put in at Watch Hill!
Alexander McAnally III
In this stuff, harbor's too dangerous.
Melissa Brown
Dangerous?
Alexander McAnally III
Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes...
Edie Bailey
This is a hurricane coming straight at us!
Melissa Brown
Let me reduce sails, Sandy, or even go back home.
Alexander McAnally III
This is my boat. We're gonna ride this thing out, not for fun, for safety. Do what I've always done: go with the flow.
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Negotiating Trust and Payment Concerns
Pritchett
It's still my money.
Vic Deakins
And if we succeed, you and your associates will get a ton of it.
Pritchett
If we're successful?
Deakins
Look, Mr. Pritchett, I will deliver the weapons to the destination. But I can't depend and I can't guarantee that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay.
Pritchett
What if they don't?
Deakins
Well, if they don't, the Southwest will be a quiet neighborhood for... about ten thousand years.
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Confrontation Over Responsibilities in Medicine
Dean Walcott
...You are not cut out to be a physician and it is my responsibility--
Patch Adams
Responsibility? You have one responsibility: To be a dickhead. How hard can that be? All you have to do is make sure your head is a dick and it's attached to your neck.
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The Satisfaction of Justice in Public Service
Judge Gardner
You know what nobody understands about certain kinds of low-pay public service work, every now and then you get to put a fucking stake in a bad guy's heart. I'm not supposed to talk about that when I visit third grade classes for career day and it doesn't get you very far in the country club locker room, but it's hard to beat when you actually get to do it.
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