Memorable Quotes from Brad Pitt
100 quotesA Question of Trust and Opportunity
Peter Brand
What...what time is it?
Billy Beane
I don't know. Pete, would you have taken me in ]?
[[w:1980 Major League Baseball draft|the first round]
Peter Brand
What?
Billy Beane
After we talked, you looked me up. Would you have taken me in the first round?
Peter Brand
Yeah, I looked you up. You...you were pretty good.
Billy Beane
Cut the crap, Pete. Would you have taken me in the first round?
Peter Brand
...I would've taken you in the ninth round. No signing bonus. I think that would've convinced you to take ].
[[w:Stanford Cardinal baseball|that scholarship]
Billy Beane
Pack your bags, Pete. I just bought you from the Cleveland Indians.
[brief pause]
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Conflict Between Unlikely Allies in Crisis
Tangerine
For what it's worth, you seem like a right fucking asshole, and I'm glad you're going to fucking die with me.
Ladybug
That's nice.
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Bathroom Boundaries and Smart Toilets Discussion
Maria Beetle
Are you hiding in a bathroom?
Ladybug
Yeah. Have you tried these smart toilets? They're a pleasure to the senses. If I had one in the chamber, I would rock this bad boy right now.
Maria Beetle
Boundaries. We need boundaries.
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Questioning Age in a Provocative Moment
Pussycat
Want me to suck your cock while you're driving?
Cliff Booth
How old are you?
[thinks for a bit]
Pussycat
What?
Cliff Booth
How old are you?
Pussycat
Wow, man. First time anybody asked that in a long time.
Cliff Booth
What's the answer?
Pussycat
Okay, we gonna play kiddie games? Eighteen. Feel better?
Cliff Booth
You got some I.D., you know, like, a driver's license or something?
Pussycat
Are you joking?
[laughing]
Cliff Booth
No, I'm not. I need to see something official that verifies that you're eighteen, which you don't have because you're not.
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The Role of a Stunt Double Explained
Allen Kincade
So, uh, Rick, explain to the audience exactly what it is a stunt double does.
Rick Dalton
Well, actors are required to do a lot of dangerous stuff. Say Jake Cahill gets shot off his horse. Now, can I fall off a horse? Yes, I can. Yes, I have. But say I fall off wrong and I sprain my wrist or twist my ankle. Now, that can put an undue burden on the production because now maybe I can't work for a week. So Cliff here is meant to help carry the load.
[all three chuckle]
Allen Kincade
Is that, uh, how you'd describe your job, Cliff?
Cliff Booth
What, carrying his load? Yeah, that's about right.
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Consequences of Sharing Personal Information
Nathan Muir
You just gave her four pieces of personal information for one dubious impersonal fact. 1) You're straight, 2)You're engaged, 3)Tomorrow's your girls birthday, and 4)You have terrible taste in women's clothing.
Tom Bishop
Just trying to find out where she got that dress.
Nathan Muir
What if she were an asset? You told her four lies that now have to be true.
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Discussing Parenthood and Readiness
J.D.
So, tell me something, Miss Thelma. How is it you ain't got any kids? I mean God gets you something special, I think you oughta pass it on.
Thelma
Well, Darryl, that's my husband.
J.D.
Darryl?
Thelma
Yeah, he says he's not ready yet. He says he's still too much of a kid himself. He kinda prides himself on being infantile.
Louise
He's got a lot to be proud of.
Thelma
Louise and him don't get along.
Louise
That's putting it mildly.
Thelma
She thinks he's a pig.
Louise
I know he's a pig.
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Re-creating Players Through Aggregate Statistics
Billy Beane
Guys, you're still trying to replace ]. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.
[[w:Jason Giambi|Giambi]
Grady Fuson
The what?
Billy Beane
Giambi's ] was .477. ]'s on-base, .324. And ]'s was .291. Add that up, and you get...
[[w:On-base percentage|on-base percentage; [w:Johnny Damon|Damon; [w:Olmedo Sáenz|Olmedo; snapping his fingers and pointing at Pete]
Peter Brand
Do you want me to speak?
Billy Beane
When I point at you, yeah.
Peter Brand
1.092.
Billy Beane
Divided by three.
[snapping]
Peter Brand
.364.
Billy Beane
That's what we're looking for. Three ballplayers... three ballplayers whose average OBP is...
[snapping]
Peter Brand
.364.
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The Cost of Banking on Humanity
Ben Rickert
If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number - every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?
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Request for a ride to the next town
Jerry Welbach
I need a lift in your el truck-o to the next town-o!
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Achilles' Defiance Against His Foe
Achilles
You sack of wine! Before my time is done I will look down on your corpse and smile.
[To Agamemnon]
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The Illusion of Peace and Surrender
Rory Devaney
They say the word peace, but at the end of the day, all they want is surrender.
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Recognition of Identity and Fame
Cliff Booth
Hey! You're Rick fucking Dalton. Don't you forget it.
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Exploring Mental Divergence and Reality Perception
L.J. Washington
I don't really come from outer space.
Jeffrey Goines
Oh. L.J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer space.
L.J. Washington
Don't mock me, my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?
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A Note of Gratitude to a Spouse
J.D.
Hey! Thank your wife for me.
[taunting Darryl at the police station; starts gyrating his hips and simulating having sex, causing Darryl to get livid]
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Morning Conversations Between Friends
Tom Bishop
My God, you're hideous. Why do you even bother?
[walking in on Nathan Muir shaving]
Nathan Muir
I missed you, too.
Tom Bishop
You want flowers at 6am?
Nathan Muir
Flowers would be nice, but I'll settle for breakfast.
Tom Bishop
I got a good spot--I taught a guy to make migas.
Nathan Muir
A Mexican restaurant in Beirut? I'm impressed.
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Confrontation Between Wolf and Ladybug
Wolf
I am going to ruin your life the way you ruined mine!
[angrily]
Ladybug
Dude, I don't even know you!
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Disillusionment of a Lost Generation
Tyler Durden
Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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Father Figures and Perceptions of God
Tyler Durden
Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
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The Need for Speed
Sonny Hayes
Drive fast.
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Surveillance Capabilities of the NSA Explained
Ben Rickert
The NSA has a $52-billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it?
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Perception of Sanity and Popular Opinion
Jeffrey Goines
You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.
James Cole
Germs?
Jeffrey Goines
Uh-huh. Eighteenth century: no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person. Along comes this doctor, uh, ], Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do they call it? Uh-uh, ]? Huh? What? Now, up to the 20th century — last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole — I go in to order a burger at this fast-food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. James, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says "I don't believe in germs. Germs is a plot made up so they could sell disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See? Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?
[[w:Ignaz Semmelweis|Semmelweis; [w:microorganism|germs]
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Stuntman Complimented by Martial Artist
Bruce Lee
You know, you're kinda pretty for a stuntman.
Cliff Booth
That's what they tell me.
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Consequences of Silence and Deception
John Smith
Option A: You talk, we listen, no pain. Option B: You don't talk, I remove your thumbs with my pliers, it will hurt. Option C: I like to vary the details a bit but the punch line is you die.
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Confrontation Among Friends and Fighters
Randy Miller
What's up, babe?
Janet Miller
What's up, Randy, is that your loser arsehole, wife-killing buddy boy here was beating the shit out of Bruce!
Randy Miller
What?
Cliff Booth
Hey, Randy.
Randy Miller
Cliff! What the fuck, man!
Bruce Lee
Let me just say, nobody beat the shit out of Bruce. It was a friendly contest. He barely touched me.
Cliff Booth
I think that dent in the car says something different.
Janet Miller
Oh...my God! What the fuck did you do to my car!?
[looks past Cliff and Bruce]
Randy Miller
What the fuck did you do to her car?
Cliff Booth
threw this little prick into it, but I did not know it was her car.
[gestures to Bruce]
Janet Miller
Get the wardrobe off, get your shit and get fucked!
[to Cliff, angry]
Randy Miller
Janet!
Janet Miller
What?
Randy Miller
I will handle this!
Janet Miller
Then fucking handle it, Randy!
Randy Miller
Cliff, get the wardrobe off, get your shit and get off the lot.
[to Cliff, calmly]
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The Limits of Human Endurance
Mills
Has he tried to speak or communicate in any way?
[about Victor]
Dr. Beardsley
Even if his brain were not mush, which it is, he chewed off his own tongue long ago.
Somerset
Uh... Doc, is there absolutely no chance that he might survive?
Dr. Beardsley
Detective, he'd die of shock right now if you were to shine a flashlight in his eyes. He's experienced about as much pain and suffering as anyone I've encountered, give or take... and he still has hell to look forward to. Good night.
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Unseen Paths: The Nature of Fate
Benjamin Button
Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it.
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The Unspoken Depths of Emotion
Heinrich Harrer
If only my hand could express, what is in my heart.
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Consequences of a Dangerous Encounter on Bullet Train
The Hornet
One little prick, and you know what happens?
[as she's trying to inject Ladybug]
Ladybug
Yes!
The Hornet
Your blood congeals, clotting your veins. You bleed out of your fucking eye socket.
Ladybug
I said, "Yes!
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Desire for More: Achilles' Ambition
Achilles
I want what all men want. I just want it more.
[to Briseis]
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Perceptions of California Living
Adele Corners
Will you tell me more about California?
Early Grayce
Yeah, I guess so. Let's see. One thing, people think faster out there on the account of all that warm weather. Cold weather makes people stupid. That's a fact.
Adele Corners
I guess that explains why there's so many stupid people around here.
Early Grayce
It sure does. You know what else? You never have to buy no fruit on account it's all on the trees everywhere you turn. And they ain't got no speed limits. I hear your first month's rent is free, state law. So I'm thinking till we get settled we'll just move around from month to month. How will that be with you, momma?
Adele Corners
What are we going to do out there, Early?
Early Grayce
By God the first thing we're going to do is get us a couple of six-packs of Lucky Lager and we're going to climb up to that famous Hollywood sign. We're going to howl at the moon, goddamn it. Yeah, just like that.
[howls]
Adele Corners
I heard once that there ain't nothing on that old moon except some little golf balls the astronauts left behind.
Early Grayce
Nah, that ain't right. That's bullshit. The government be sending people there all the time. Just don't want us to know about it.
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Transforming Perspectives on Violence and Redemption
Maria Beetle
Talk to me.
[over the phone]
Ladybug
I am ready. You are getting the new, improved me. Because if you put peace out in the world, you get peace back.
Maria Beetle
I think you might be forgetting what you do for a living. Take the gun.
Ladybug
Every job I do, somebody dies. I'm not that guy anymore.
Maria Beetle
Some conflicts require a gun.
Ladybug
Okay. What am I snatching and/or grabbing?
Maria Beetle
A briefcase. You said you wanted simple for your first job back. Doesn't get simpler.
Ladybug
There's nothing simple about this job!
Maria Beetle
There's something else going on here.
Ladybug
Yeah, I'm not the only one on this train looking for this case.
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Beverage Preferences in Espionage
Tom Bishop
I thought spies drank martinis.
Nathan Muir
Scotch, never less than twelve years old.
Tom Bishop
Is that right? Agency rules?
Nathan Muir
My rules.
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The Importance of Rules in Crisis Situations
Tom Bishop
Fuck your rules, Nathan.
Nathan Muir
Okay, but tonight they saved your life.
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Aldo Raine Assembles His Special Team
Lt. Aldo Raine
Ten-hut! My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm puttin together a special team; and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwackin guerrilla army, we're gonna be doing one thang and one thang only … killin ]. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn ], cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin aer-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin maniac, and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every sumbitch we find wearin a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I am the direct descendant of the mountain man ], and that means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us, and the Germans won't be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us, and the Germans will talk about us, and the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil that they've done, it will be with thoughts of us that they are tortured with. Sound good?
[[Nazism|Nazis; [W:Smoky Mountains|Smoky Mountains; [w:Jim Bridger|Jim Bridger]
Soldiers
Yes, sir!
Lt. Aldo Raine
That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning for all you would-be warriors: when you join my command, you take on debt, a debt you owe me personally. Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps! And all y'all will get me one hundred Nazi scalps taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis, or you will die tryin'!
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Reflections on beginnings and endings
John Smith
I guess that's what happens in the end, you start thinking about the beginning.
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Cultural Sensitivity in Emotional Expression
Cliff Booth
Don't cry in front of the Mexicans.
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Tristan Ludlow's Identity and Shoe Commentary
Sheriff Tynert
His name is Tristan Ludlow. He was an officer.
Isabel Ludlow
He is with Tristan Ludlow.
Tristan Ludlow
His shoes stink like shift. Their dirty shoes stink like feel.
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Confrontation Between Jesse James and Robert Ford
Jesse James
Go away.
[Bob walks in on Jesse in the bath]
Robert Ford
Used to be nobody could sneak up on Jesse James.
Jesse James
Now you think otherwise?
Robert Ford
I ain't never seen you without your guns, neither.
Jesse James
Can't figure it out: do you want to be like me or do you want to BE me?
[pause]
Robert Ford
I'm just making fun is all.
[defeated]
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Short-Term Goals vs. Long-Term Consequences
James Cole
Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.
Jeffrey Goines
Wiping out the human race? That's a great idea. That's great. But more of a long-term thing. I mean, first we have to focus on more immediate goals.
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The Importance of the Nose in Strategy
Rusty Ryan
Oh I told him that the nose plays... the nose plays.
[Referring to Linus' facial prop]
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The Value of Pain and Sacrifice
Tyler Durden
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
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Achilles Calls Out to Hector
Achilles
HECTOR!! HECTOOOOOR! HECTOR!!!!
[outside the walls of Troy shouting to Hector]
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Desire for Better Treatment in Confinement
Jeffrey Goines
And when my father finds out I'm in this kind of place, he'll have them transfer me to one of those classy joints where they treat you properly, like a person, like a guest. With sheets and towels like a big hotel, with great drugs for all of us nut-case, lunatic, maniac devils.
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Understanding Confusion in Uncertain Situations
Rory Devaney
All the same, Mr. Fitzsimmoms, if you're not confused, you don't know what's goin on.
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Mental Health and Perception of Reality
Jeffrey Goines
You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your ] process is all fucked up. Your ] tray is jammed, man!
[[thought; [information]
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Consequences of Violence in a Fight
Bruce Lee
You're the one with the big mouth, and I would really enjoy closing it, especially in front of all my friends. But my hands are registered as lethal weapons. That means, we get into a fight, I accidentally kill you? I go to jail.
Cliff Booth
Anybody accidentally kills anybody in a fight, they go to jail. It's called manslaughter.
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Challenging the Unfairness of the Game
Billy Beane
The problem we're trying to solve is that ]. Then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us. It's an unfair game. And now we've been gutted. We're like organ donors for the rich. Boston's taken our kidneys, Yankees have taken our heart. And you guys just sit around talking the same old "good body" nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for ]. We've got to think differently. We are the last dog at the bowl. You see what happens to the runt of the litter? He dies.
[Addressing his baseball scouts; [w:Forbes_list_of_the_most_valuable_MLB_teams#Ranking|there are rich teams and there are poor teams; [w:Fabio Lanzoni|Fabio]
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Confrontation at Spahn Ranch
Cliff Booth
Oh, I know you. I know all three of you! Yeah, Spahn Ranch! Spahn Ranch, yeah! Woo! I don't know your name, but I remember that hair. And you, I remember your white little face. And you were on a horsey! Yeah... you are?
[turns to Katie; turns to Sadie; turns to Tex]
Tex
I'm the Devil. And I'm here to do the Devil's business.
Cliff Booth
...Nah, it was dumber than that. Something like Rex.
Sadie
God, shoot him, Tex!
Cliff Booth
Tex!
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Opportunities Shape Our Lives
Benjamin Button
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
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Tension Escalates Over Car Repair Responsibility
Cliff Booth
If something were to happen to my boss's car, well, I'd get in trouble. Lucky for you, he's got a spare. Fix it!
[pulls out the spare tire, car jack, and lug wrench]
Clem
Fuck you!
[laughs]
Cliff Booth
Ladies. Come one step closer, and I knock his teeth out! Fix it.
[punches Clem in the face again, before the Family members start advancing toward him.; ''hauls Clem to his feet and throws him against Rick’s car]
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Assessing the Value of Connections
Tom Bishop
She's just someone I used to get to the camp.
Nathan Muir
She gonna be of any more use to us?
Tom Bishop
Not to us.
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Timing of Violence in War
Achilles
It's too early in the day for killing princes.
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Negotiating Information Under Pressure
Lt. Aldo Raine
You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin business; we in the killin Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'. Up the road apiece, there's an orchard. Now, besides you, we know there's another kraut patrol fucking around there somewhere. Now if that patrol were to have any crackshots, that orchard would be a god-damn sniper's delight. If you ever want to eat a sauerkraut sandwich again, you gotta show me on this here map where they are, you gotta tell me how many there are, and you gotta tell me what kind of artillery they're carrying with them.
Sgt. Werner Rachtman
You can't expect me to divulge information that would put German lives in danger.
Raine
Well, now Werner, that's where you're wrong, because that's exactly what I expect. I need to know about Germans hiding in them trees, and you need to tell me, and you need to tell me right now. Now, just take that finger of yours and point out on this here map where this party's being held, how many's coming, and what they brought to play with.
Rachtman
I respectfully refuse, sir.
[''Placing his hand on his chest'']
Raine
Hear that?
[''Rapping sound'']
Rachtman
Yes.
Raine
That's Sgt. Donny Donowitz. You might know him better by his nickname: the Bear Jew. Now, if you heard of Aldo the Apache, you gotta have heard of the Bear Jew.
Rachtman
I've heard of the Bear Jew.
Raine
What did you hear?
Rachtman
He beats German soldiers with a club.
Raine
He bashes their brains in with a baseball bat, what he does. Now, Werner, I'm gonna ask you one last god-damn time. If you still respectfully refuse, I'm calling the Bear Jew over. He's gonna take that big bat of his, and he's gonna beat your ass to death with it. Now, take your wiener schnitzel lickin finger and point out on this map what I want to know.
Rachtman
Fuck you... and your Jew dogs!
[''Softly''; ''screams''; ''The Basterds all laugh.'']
Raine
Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to going to the movies. Donny!
Sgt. Donny Donowitz
Yeah?
[''From within a cave'']
Raine
We got a German here who wants to die for his country! Oblige him!
Donowitz
Did you get that for killing Jews?
[''Appears from cave and taps medal on Rachtman's chest'']
Rachtman
Bravery.
[''Donny makes a few practice swings on Rachtman's head and then proceeds to bludgeon Rachtman'']
Basterds Squad
Yeah! Oh, no! Donny! Yeah, Donny!
Raine
About now I'd be shitting my pants if I was you.
[''To Wehrmacht captive Butz''; ''Basterds laugh'']
Donowitz
] knocks it out of the park! ] is on its feet for Teddy Fucking Ballgame! He went yard on that one, on to fucking Lansdowne Street! You!
[[w:Ted Williams|Teddy Fucking Williams; [w:Fenway Park|Fenway Park; ''to another prisoner''; ''Prisoner begins running and Hirschberg shoots him'']
Raine
Damn it, Hirschberg! Donny, bring that other one over here... ALIVE.
Donowitz
Get the fuck up! Batter up. You're on deck! Two hits. I hit you, you hit the ground.
[''To Butz'']
Raine
English?
Corporal Butz
Nein
Raine
Wicki! Ask him if he wants to live. Tell him to point out on this map the German position.
[''Wicki translates''; ''Butz quickly points; the Basterds laugh'']
Raine
Ask him how many Germans.
[''Butz replies'']
Wilhelm Wicki
Around about 12.
Raine
What kind of artillery? Now, when you report what happened here, you can't tell them you told us what you told us. They'll shoot you. They're going to want to know why you're so special we let you live. So tell them we let you live so you could spread the word through the ranks what's going to happen to every Nazi we find. If you survive the war, when you get home, whatcha gonna do?
[''Butz replies''; ''Butz replies'']
Wicki
He's gonna hug his mother.
Raine
Well, ain't that nice. Ask him if he's gonna take off his uniform.
[''Butz replies'']
Wicki
He's gonna burn it.
Raine
Yeah, that's what we thought. We don't like that. See, we like our Nazis in uniforms. That way you can spot em just like that. If you take off that uniform, ain't nobody gonna know you was a Nazi. That don't sit well with us. So I'm gonna give you something you can't take off.
[''Snaps fingers''; ''Draws his [[w:Bowie knife|Bowie knife]
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Investigation Uncovers a Mysterious Death
Mills
What do you got?
Somerset
Dead dog.
Doe
I didn't do that.
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Achilles Demands Honor in Battle
Achilles
Get up, Prince of Troy. Get up. I won't let a stone take my glory.
[To Hector]
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The Birth of a Legend
Tristan Ludlow
(smiling) Some people hear their own inner voices with great claiming. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy and they become legends, Tristan Ludlow was born in the moon of the falling leaves. It was a terrible winter. His mother almost died bringing him into this world. His father, the Colonel, brought him to me. I wrapped him in a bearskin and held him all that night. As he grew into a man, I taught him the joy of the kill. When the hunter cuts out its warm heart, setting its spirit free.
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A Warning Against Reckless Behavior
Ben Rickert
Just...don't fucking dance.
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Understanding the Consequences of My Choices
Jerry Welbach
You're missing the grand design here! If I don't go, I'm dead! Yeah. And it's a little hard to carry on a relationship when I'm stuffed with straw and formaldehyde.
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The Diversity of Human Experience
Benjamin Button
Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know ]. Some are mothers. And some people — dance.
[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]
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The Controversial Influence of Bill James in Baseball
John Henry
So why did you return my call?
Billy Beane
Because it's the Red Sox. Because I believe science might offer an answer to the ]. Because I hear you hired Bill James.
[[w:Curse of the Bambino|Curse of the Bambino; Henry laughs]
John Henry
Yup. You know, why someone took so long to hire that guy is beyond me.
Billy Beane
Well, baseball hates him.
John Henry
Well, baseball can hate him, you know. One of the great things about money is that it buys a lot of things, one of which is the luxury to disregard what baseball likes, doesn't likes, what baseball thinks, doesn't think.
Billy Beane
Sounds nice. Well, I was grateful for the call.
[Laughing]
John Henry
You were grateful?
Billy Beane
Yeah.
John Henry
For $41 million, you built a playoff team. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Peña, and you won more games without them than you did with them. You won ], but the Yankees spent $1.4 million per win, and you paid $260,000. I know you are taking it in the teeth, but the first guy through the wall... he always gets bloody, always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business... but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihood, their jobs. It's threatening the way they do things... and every time that happens, whether it's the government, a way of doing business, whatever, the people who are holding the reins - they have their hands on the switch - they go batshit crazy. I mean, anybody who's not tearing their team down right now and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs. They'll be sitting their ass on the sofa in October watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.
[[w:2002 New York Yankees season|the exact same number of games that the Yankees won; Slips Beane a piece of paper]
Billy Beane
What's this?
John Henry
I want you to be my general manager. That's my offer.
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Fate and Perception in History
Lt. Aldo Raine
You know, where I'm from—
Col. Hans Landa
Yeah, where is that, exactly?
Raine
] — I done my share of bootleggin'. Up there, if you engage in what the federal government calls illegal activity, but what we call a man just trying to earn a living for his family selling moonshine liquor, it behooves oneself to keep his wits. Long story short: we hear a story too good to be true, it ain't.
[[W:Maynardville, Tennessee|Maynardville, Tennessee]
Landa
Sitting in your chair, I would probably say the same thing. And 999.999 times out of a million you would be correct. But in the pages of history, every once in a while, fate reaches out and extends its hand. What shall the history books read?
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Outlaw Charm and Heartfelt Connection
Thelma
You're a real live outlaw, aren't ya?
J.D.
Well I may be an outlaw, darlin', but you're the one stealing my heart.
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Cultural Betrayal and Misunderstanding Explored
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
Hello, my friend. We did what was best for our country, for Tibet.
Heinrich Harrer
On the way to Lhasa I would see Tibetans wearing those jackets. Chinese soldiers very nice. Give food, clothes and money. Very nice. It's strange to me that something so harmless as a jacket can symbolize such a great lie.
Ngawang Jigme
After all these years you still don't understand our Tibetan ways. To return a gift is unforgivable.
Heinrich Harrer
A man who betrays his culture shouldn't preach about its customs. There was a time I would have wished you dead but your shame will be your torture and your torture will be your life. I wish it to be long.
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The Limits of Data in Baseball
Grady Fuson
Major League Baseball and its fans...they're gonna be more than happy to throw you and Google boy under the bus if you keep doing what you're doing. You don't put a team together with a computer.
Billy Beane
No?
Grady Fuson
No. Baseball isn't just numbers. It's not science. If it was, anybody could do what we do, but they can't cause they don't know what we know. They don't have our experience and they don't have our intuition.
Billy Beane
Ok.
[dismissively]
Grady Fuson
Billy, you got a kid in there that's got a degree in Economics from Yale. You got a scout here with 29 years of baseball experience. You're listening to the wrong one. Now there are intangibles that only baseball people understand. You're discarding what scouts have done for 150 years, even yourself?
Billy Beane
Adapt or die.
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A Brief Exchange on Preferences
Tangerine
Oh, no thank you.
Ladybug
You know what? Do you have anything sparkling?
Ladybug
That's it. That's the one. Thank you. Domo arigato.
Ladybug
Sure you don't wanna talk this out?
Tangerine
Not particularly, no.
Ladybug
Ah, okay.
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Financial Crisis Impact on Europe
Ben Rickert
The largest bank in France just froze its money-market accounts. This thing's starting to hit across Europe. Greece and Iceland are finished, Spain's teetering.
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Achilles' Desperation for a Challenge
Achilles
Is there no one else?! IS THERE NO ONE ELSE!?!
[to the Thessalonians after defeating Boagrius]
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Admiration and Tension Between Characters
Doe
Do you hear me, Detective? I'm trying to tell you how much I admire you... and your pretty wife.
Mills
What?
Doe
Tracy.
Mills
What'd you fucking say?
Doe
It's disturbing how easily a member of the press can purchase information from men in your precinct. I visited your home this morning, after you'd left. I tried to play husband. I tried to taste the life of a simple man. It didn't work out, so I took a souvenir... her pretty head! Because I envied your normal life. It seems that envy is my sin.
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Community Welcome and Gratitude
Gypsy
Welcome to our community.
Cliff Booth
Thanks for having me.
Gypsy
And thanks for giving our precious Pussy a ride home.
Cliff Booth
Think nothing of it.
Gypsy
We love Pussy.
Cliff Booth
Yes, we do.
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Understanding Time and Television Requests
Jeffrey Goines
So if you want to watch a particular television program, say All My Children or something, you go to the Charge Nurse and tell her day and time the show you want to see is on. But you have to tell her before the show is scheduled to be on. There's this guy and he's always requesting shows that had already played. Yes, no. You have to tell her before. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the Charge Nurse couldn't make it be yesterday. She couldn't turn back time, thank you, ]. Now he, he was nuts. He was a fruitcake, Jim!
[[Einstein]
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Achilles Questions the Value of Victory
Achilles
Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no one here to see you fall?
[after Hector challenges him]
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Tension Among Characters in a Critical Moment
Early Grayce
Got them both on the dead run.
[after shooting two cops]
Adele Corners
No! No, no, no Early!
Early Grayce
Come on, momma. Tell me that don't hurt. Here.
[Walks over to Brian who is standing over the wounded cop; Hands Brian a gun while pointing another one at his head]
Brian Kessler
What?
Early Grayce
Gotta put that crippled dog out of his misery. You wanna know about it, you gotta do it, son. Shoot him. Come on, lay it on in there. Come on, mean boy. Come on, mean boy. Do it! Shoot him! Shoot the dog! Time to live, boy. Shoot him. Come on. Go! Go, mean boy.
Early Grayce
You faggot.
Brian Kessler
Look at his face! It's not your father. Look at him!
Early Grayce
I know that, you idiot. That's police in a world of hurting. This here's a mercy killing.
Carrie Laughlin
Oh God!
Early Grayce
Let's hit the road.
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Uncertainty in Gratitude Among Characters
Early Grayce
You haven't even said thank you.
Adele Corners
Thank you.
Early Grayce
Thank you for what, Adele?
Adele Corners
I don't know, Early.
Early Grayce
Well, Adele, it's for saving your fucking life back there! Goddamn! You were this close, momma, from spending the night in the county morgue.
Carrie Laughlin
He wasn't going to shoot her, you murdering son of a bitch!
Brian Kessler
Stop it, Carrie.
Carrie Laughlin
What are you fucking insane?
Brian Kessler
Shut up!
Carrie Laughlin
God, why are you so fucking blind, Brian? He's a murderer for crying out loud.
Brian Kessler
Just shut up!
Early Grayce
Goddamn bunch of loons.
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The Complexity of Baseball's Romance and Reality
Billy Beane
It's hard not to be romantic about baseball. This kind of thing, it's fun for the fans. It sells tickets and hot dogs. Doesn't mean anything.
Peter Brand
Billy, ].
[[w:List of Major League Baseball longest winning streaks|we just won twenty games in a row]
Billy Beane
And what's the point?
Peter Brand
We just got the record.
Billy Beane
Man, I've been doing this for... listen, man. I've been in this game a long time. I'm not in it for a record, I'll tell you that. I'm not in it for a ring. That's when people get hurt. If we don't win the last game of the Series, they'll dismiss us.
Peter Brand
Billy...
Billy Beane
I know these guys. I know the way they think, and they will erase us. And everything we've done here, none of it'll matter. Any other team wins the World Series, good for them. They're drinking champagne, they get a ring. But if we win, on our budget, with this team... we'll have changed the game. And that's what I want. I want it to mean something.
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Response Timing in Conversation
Rusty Ryan
(to Linus Caldwell) If you are going to ask me a question give me some time to respond, unless the question is rhetorical in which case the answer is obvious, yes.
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The Beauty of Mortality
Achilles
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now, and we will never be here again.
[to Briseis]
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Statistical Projections for Baseball Success
Peter Brand
Using this equation in the upper left... I'm projecting that we need to win at least 99 games... in order to make it to the postseason. We need to score at least 814 runs in order to win those games... and allow no more than 645 runs.
[Pointing to numbers on a white board; Pulls out code from a computer]
Billy Beane
What's this?
Peter Brand
This is a code that I've written for our year-to-year projections. This is building in the intelligence that we have to project players.
Billy Beane
Okay.
Peter Brand
It's about getting things down to one number. Using the stats the way we read them... we'll find value in players that nobody else can see. People are overlooked... for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. ] and mathematics cut straight through that. Billy, of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team... of 25 people that we can afford, because everyone else in baseball undervalues them. Like.... an island of misfit toys. Billy, this is ]. He's a relief pitcher. He is one of the most undervalued players in baseball. His defect is that he ]. Nobody in the big leagues cares about him because he looks funny. This guy could be not just the best pitcher in our pen... but one of the most effective relief pitchers in all baseball. This guy should cost $3 million a year. We can get him for 237,000.
[[Bill James; Pulls up a player's statistics; [w:Chad Bradford|Chad Bradford; [w:Submarine (baseball)|throws funny]
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Embrace Chaos and Let Go of Control
Tyler Durden
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
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Value Beyond Money in Decision Making
Billy Beane
I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again.
Peter Brand
You're not doing it for the money.
Billy Beane
No?
Peter Brand
No. You're doing it for what the money says. And it says what it says to any player that makes big money. That they're worth it.
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Struggles of Identity and Trust
Jesse James
You know what John Newman Edwards once wrote about me? He said I didn't trust two men in ten thousand and was even cautious around them. The government's sort of run me ragged. I'm going the long way around the barn to say I've been feeling cornered and just plain ornery of late and I'd be pleased if you'd accept the gun as my way of apologizing.
[Jesse has given Bob a gun as a gift]
Robert Ford
Heaven knows I'd be ornerier if I were in your position.
Jesse James
No. I haven't been acting correctly. I can't hardly recognize myself sometimes when I'm greased. I go on journeys out of my body and look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who's gone so wrong. I've been becoming a problem to myself.
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Uncertainty in a Critical Decision
Gerry Lane
Sure you wanna do this?
[Preparing to enter zombie-infested building]
W.H.O. Doctor
Course I'm not. Let's go.
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The Consequence of Being Forgotten
Achilles
That's why no one will remember your name.
[To the messenger boy who wouldn't want to fight Boagrius]
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Tenant's Silence Conceals Dark Secrets
Somerset
Victor's landlord said there was an envelope of cash in the office mailbox the first of every month. Quote: "I never heard a single complaint from the tenant in apartment 306, and nobody ever complained about him. He's the best tenant I've ever had." End quote.
Mills
Yeah, a landlord's dream: a paralyzed tenant with no tongue.
Somerset
Who pays the rent on time.
Mills
I'm sick of all this waiting!
Somerset
This is the job.
Mills
Why aren't we out there, huh? Why we gotta sit here, rotting, waiting until the lunatic does it again?
Somerset
It's dismissive to call him a lunatic. Don't make that mistake.
Mills
Come on, he's insane. Look, right now he's probably dancing around in his grandmother's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter. Ooh. How's that?
Somerset
I don't think so.
Mills
His luck will run out.
Somerset
He's not depending on luck. We walked into that apartment exactly one year after he tied Victor to the bed. One year to the date. He wanted us to.
Mills
Don't know that for sure.
Somerset
Oh yes, we do. This note he left, his first words to us: "Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Mills
Fuck him. So what?
Somerset
He's right so far. Imagine the will it takes to keep a man bound for a full year, to sever his hand and use it to plant fingerprints, to insert tubes into his genitals. This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient.
Mills
He's a nut-bag! Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda.
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Reflections on Time and Existence
Benjamin Button
* Last lines
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Tension Between Captor and Captive
Col. Hans Landa
As of this moment, both Omar and Donowitz should be sitting in the very seats we left them in — 0023 and 0024, if my memory serves — explosives still around their ankle, still ready to explode, and your mission — some would call it terrorist plot — as of this moment is still a go.
Lt. Aldo Raine
That's a pretty exciting story. What's next, Eliza on Ice?
Landa
However, all I have to do is pick up this phone right there, inform the cinema, and your plan's kaput.
Raine
If they're still there, and if they're still alive — and that's one big if — there ain't no way you gonna take them boys without setting off them bombs.
Landa
I have no doubt. Yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night. But you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Göring, and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to end the war. But if I don't pick up this phone right here, you may very well get all four. And if you get all four, you end the war tonight! So, gentlemen, let's discuss the prospect of ending the war tonight. Gentlemen, I have no intention of killing ] and killing ] and killing ] and killing ], not to mention winning the war single-handedly for the Allies, only later to find myself standing before a Jewish tribunal. If you want to win the war tonight, we have to make a deal.
[''Lifts up the Chianti and fills their glasses''; [Adolf Hitler|Hitler; [Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels; [Hermann Göring|Göring; [Martin Bormann|Bormann; places hands on table]
Lieutenant Aldo Raine
What kind o deal?
Landa
The kind you wouldn't have the authority to make. However, I'm sure this mission of yours has a commanding officer — a general, I'm betting — for ] would be my guess. Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it: "that's a bingo"?
[[W:Office of Strategic Services|OSS; ''Raine is speechless''; curiously]
Raine
You just say "bingo.
Landa
Bingo! How fun.
[gleefully]
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Exploring Modern Homicide Investigations
Mills
Modern Homicide Investigation, ], ] … bondage?
[[w:In Cold Blood|In Cold Blood; [w:Of Human Bondage|Of Human Bondage]
Somerset
Not what you think it is.
Mills
Okay. The Marquis de-Shaday …
Somerset
It's the ].
[[Marquis de Sade|Marquis de ''Sade'']
Mills
Whatever. The Writings of Saint Thomas Aqua-something.
Somerset
Saint ]? There it is. He wrote about the seven deadly sins. Is that it?
[[Thomas Aquinas]
Mills
Yeah.
Somerset
Let's try it.
Mills
Jonathan Doe?
Somerset
Whatever.
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Chasing Moments of Peaceful Freedom
Sonny Hayes
It's rare, but sometimes, there's this moment in the car where everything goes quiet, my heartbeat slows, it's peaceful, and I can see everything, and no one, no one can touch me. And I am chasing that moment every time I get in the car. I don't know when I'll find it again, but, man, I want to. I want to. Cause in that moment, I'm flying.
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Murderer Identified on the Train
Ladybug
I know who killed the kid!
[as they're fighting]
Tangerine
Yeah? Where the fuck is he then?
Ladybug
He's on the train!
Tangerine
Oh, well, that narrows it down then, doesn't it?
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Confronting Reality in Pursuit of Justice
Somerset
You know, this isn't gonna have a happy ending.
Mills
Hey man, if we catch him, I'll be happy enough.
Somerset
If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the Devil – I mean, if he's Satan himself – that might live up to our expectations. But … he's not the Devil. He's just a man.
Mills
You know, see, you bitch and you complain and you tell me these things – if you think you're preparing me for hard times, thank you, but …
Somerset
But you got to be a hero? You want to be a champion. Well, let me tell you, people don't want a champion. They wanna eat cheeseburgers, play the lotto and watch television.
Mills
Hey, how did you get like this? I wanna know.
Somerset
Well. It wasn't one thing, I can tell you that.
[sighs]
Mills
Go on.
Somerset
I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was a virtue!
Mills
You're no different. You're no better.
Somerset
I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not! Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely. Apathy is a solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.
Mills
We are talking about people who are mentally ill. We are talking about people who are fucking crazies.
Somerset
No. No, we're not. We're talking about everyday life here. You – you can't afford to be this naive!
Mills
Fuck off. See, you should listen to yourself. Yeah. You say that the problem with people is that they don't care, so I don't care about people. It makes no sense. You know why?
Somerset
You care?
Mills
Damn right.
Somerset
And you gonna make a difference?
Mills
Whatever. The point is that I don't think you're quitting because you believe these things you say. I don't. I think you wanna believe them because you're quitting. You want me to agree with you, and you want me to say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. It's all fucked up. It's a fucking mess. We should all go live in a fucking log cabin." But I won't. I won't say that. I don't agree with you. I do not. I can't.
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Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Future
Tyler Durden
In the world I see; you're stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
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Challenges of Saving Humanity in Crisis
Gerry Lane
You're letting people in.
Jurgen Warmbrunn
Every human being we save is one less zombie to fight.
Gerry Lane
If I could get into India, where would I start? Who would I speak to?
Jurgen Warmbrunn
India is a black hole. Forget about patient zero.
Gerry Lane
I can't do that. It's too late for me to build a wall. I'm running out of time. I need specifics. I need answers...
Jurgen Warmbrunn
I don't have answers. All you can do is find a way to hide.
[Cutting him off]
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Adele's Decision Against Climbing the Sign
Early Grayce
Momma? What are you crying for? I'm the one who got hit.
Adele Corners
Cos I decided, Early, I'm not gonna climb up that Hollywood sign with you.
Early Grayce
And why not?
Adele Corners
Cos you're mean, Early.
Early Grayce
No, I'm not.
Adele Corners
You hurt those people, Early. I don't wanna do it with you. I loved you, Early. You just be quiet. You are mean.
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The Justification of Sinful Actions
Doe
Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner.
Mills
Wait a minute, I thought all you did was kill innocent people...
Doe
Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up, a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him, a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. And after him I picked the lawyer, and you both must have secretly been thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!
[outraged; his voice rising in anger]
Mills
Murderers?
Doe
A woman …
Mills
Murderers, John, like yourself?
Doe
A woman, so ugly on the inside that she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug-dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point: we see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. And what I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed … forever.
Mills
Uh... yeah. Delusions of grandeur.
[to Somerset]
John Doe
You should be thanking me.
Mills
Why is that, John?
Doe
Because you're going to be remembered after this. Realize, detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be.
Mills
No. No, we would have got you eventually.
Doe
Oh, really? So, what were you doing? Biding your time? Toying with me? Allowing five "innocent" people to die until you felt like springing your trap? Tell me, what was the indisputable evidence you were going to use on me right before I walked up to you and put my hands in the air?!
Mills
John. Calm down. I seem to remember us knocking on your door.
Doe
Oh, that's right. And I seem to remember breaking your face. You're only alive because I didn't kill you.
[leans forward]
Mills
Okay, sit back.
Doe
I spared you.
Mills
Sit back!
Doe
Remember that, detective, every time you look in the mirror at that face of yours for the rest of your life, or should I say, for the rest of what life I've allowed you to have.
Mills
Sit back! Sit back, you fucking freak! Shut your fucking mouth! You're no messiah. You're a movie of the week. You're a fucking T-shirt, at best.
John Doe
Don't ask me to pity those people. I don't mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at ].
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Somerset
Is that to say, John, that what you were doing was God's good work?
Doe
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
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Reality and Metaphor in Conversation
Cliff Booth
You are real, right?
[high on acid]
Tex
I'm as real as a donut, motherfucker.
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Fate's Unfortunate Deal in Bullet Train
The Elder
Everything that's ever happened has led you here. Fate.
Ladybug
Well, that's a shit deal.
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Selling Securities in an Unlikely Setting
Ben Rickert
I'm trying to sell $200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep.
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The Complexity of Resentment Explained Through Plums
The Elder
A plum does not resent the hungry man, but the farmer who planted the tree.
Ladybug
He resents the farmer?
Lemon
So how do plums have fucking resentments now?
Ladybug
Oh. So it can resent?
The Elder
Listen. The White Death is the farmer.
Ladybug
So we're the plums. We're the plums?
Lemon
It don't make sense! Why are you motherfuckers using metaphors? Look, HE SHOT MY BROTHER!
The Elder
YOU SHOT MY SON! We prepare together, or we die alone.
[pause, calmly]
Ladybug
That's... all I was trying to say.
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The Consequences of Wealth and Ambition
Ben Rickert
You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich.
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Trade Decisions in Team Strategy
Billy Beane
Look, I need a little help on defense. - Okay.
Billy Beane
I'm willing to trade Jeremy Giambi for it.
Peter Brand
What?
Peter Brand
What are you doing?
Billy Beane
Cleaning house.
Billy Beane
Maybe what?
Peter Brand
No.
Billy Beane
Why not?
Peter Brand
Because you can't trade Jeremy Giambi.
Billy Beane
He'll be fine, Ed.
Billy Beane
I'm not. You're picking mine. Giambi's name alone is worth more.
Billy Beane
Nothing. Can we say it's done in theory and start drawing up the paperwork?
Billy Beane
Great.
Peter Brand
He was gonna say something else.
Billy Beane
When you get the answer you're looking for, hang up. Suzanne.
Billy Beane
David Dombrowski.
Billy Beane
And Peña's going too.
Peter Brand
I don't think you should do that. I really don't think you should do that.
Billy Beane
I want Hatteberg in the lineup tonight.
Peter Brand
You need to take a minute. I think you seriously need to think about what you're doing. Because you're upset.
Billy Beane
Okay. What am I missing?
Peter Brand
These are hard moves to explain to people.
Billy Beane
Why is that a problem, Pete?
Peter Brand
Don't make an emotional decision, Billy.
Billy Beane
Look, we're gonna shake things up. Dave. Peña's going on the block. You're my first call. Because he's making the rest of the team look bad. He's gonna be a Rookie of the Year.
Peter Brand
Probably an All-Star.
Billy Beane
He's an All-Star, Dave. No. I want a reliever and cash. Okay. You got five minutes, Dave. I'm not waiting.
Peter Brand
Billy, Peña is an All-Star, okay? And if you dump him and this Hatteberg thing doesn't work out... you know this is... This is the kind of decision that gets you fired. It is.
Billy Beane
Yes, you're right. I may lose my job. In which case I'm a 44-year-old guy with a high school diploma... and a daughter I'd like to be able to send to college. You're 25 years old, with a degree from Yale... and a pretty impressive apprenticeship. I don't think we're asking the right question. I think the question we should be asking is... do you believe in this thing or not?
Peter Brand
I do.
Billy Beane
It's a problem you think we need to explain ourselves. Don't. To anyone.
Peter Brand
Okay.
Billy Beane
Now, I'm gonna see this thing through, for better or worse. Just tell me, do you project we'll win more with Hatteberg or Peña at first?
Peter Brand
It's close... but theoretically, Hatteberg.
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