The Lake House - Concern and Family Dynamics in Dialogue
Simon Wyler:
Where's your brother?
Alex Wyler:
I sent him away. He wasn't feeling well. You know how he is, he worries.
Simon Wyler:
Yeah, I know. He gets that from your mother, I'm afraid. She always worried too much.
Alex Wyler: [looks at architectural plans]
What are you looking at?
Simon Wyler:
Hmm? Oh, yeah, here, take a gander. It's a proposal for a museum.
Alex Wyler:
Who is it?
Simon Wyler:
Someone new.
Alex Wyler:
Oh, I like the walkways, where the light falls. What are the materials?
Simon Wyler:
Granite. Aluminum.
Alex Wyler:
White panels are straight out of Meier... but the interior color coming through the front windows, that's different. It's not new, but it's clean, uncluttered. I like it.
Simon Wyler:
When was the last time you were in Barcelona?
Alex Wyler:
Years ago, with you, Mom and Henry.
Simon Wyler:
Do you remember visiting Casa de la Caritat?
Alex Wyler:
The almshouse.
Simon Wyler:
That's right. You mentioned Meier. His Barcelona museum stands in the same area as Casa de la Caritat. It drinks the same light. Meier designed a series of louvered skylights to capture that light and cast it inward to illuminate the art within, but indirectly. And, that was important, because although light enhances art, it can also degrade it. But, you know all that already, you son of a gun. Now, this... where do you suppose this is to be built?
Alex Wyler:
I have no idea.
Simon Wyler:
Oh, but you said you liked it.
Alex Wyler:
Conceptually.
Simon Wyler:
Now, come on. You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.
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The Lake House - The Importance of Light in Architecture
Simon Wyler:
You know as well as I do that the light in Barcelona is quite different from the light in Tokyo. And, the light in Tokyo is different from that in Prague. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.
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Where the Heart Is - Conflict Over Insults Among Friends
Jimmy:
We're broke, we're desperate, we're hopeless... The fag doesn't pay, the Shit doesn't pay.
Chloe:
Don't call him "the fag!
Daphne:
Don't call him "the Shit!
Shitty:
At least I'm "the Shit." You're just A shit.
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Where the Heart Is - Morning Bathroom Routines and Frustrations
Shitty:
At my age, I need an hour in the bathroom in the morning! And there's always one of them skinny, titless mannequins in there fluffing up her hair.
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Dreamscape - Unexpected Intrusion in Dreamscape
Bob Blair: [opens the elevator door to find Alex there]
How did you get in here?
Alex Gardner:
It was easy!
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Dreamscape - Experimenting with Dream Manipulation
Alex Gardner:
You had Tommy Ray kill that woman in the dream link, didn't you?
Bob Blair:
Yes.
Alex Gardner:
Why?
Bob Blair:
I wanted to see if it could be done.
Alex Gardner:
You're a real humanitarian, Blair.
Bob Blair:
I'm a realist. We live in a dangerous, hostile world. I will do whatever I have to to keep this country safe.
Alex Gardner:
Yeah, that's what scares me.
Bob Blair:
You're a very intelligent young man, Alex. You've mastered an amazing technique. Surely you can see the possibilities. During his dream link with Matusik, Tommy Ray stabbed her with a knife. A dream knife. The shock to Matusik's system caused a coronary and she died. So, the old wives tale comes true after all. When you dream that you die, you die in life at the very same instant. Now we can go into an enemy's dream, kill him, make it look as if he died in his sleep. Do you realize what that means?
Alex Gardner:
It means no one's safe from you.
Bob Blair:
The question is whether you're gonna cooperate. I never had any doubts about Tommy Ray.
Alex Gardner:
Well, why should you? He killed his own father. He's a fucking psychopath.
Bob Blair:
Alex, it's very simple. Either you work for me or you die.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - A Wish for Silence in Discourse
Chang: [[Julius Caesar (play)#Act III|constant as the Northern Star]
I am ]...
Leonard McCoy:
I'd give real money if he'd shut up.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - A Toast to the Future and Shakespeare
Chancellor Gorkon:
I offer a toast. The undiscovered country...the future.
Everyone:
The undiscovered country.
Spock: [[Hamlet#Act III|Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1.]
]
Gorkon:
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
Chang: [Klingons laugh]
taH pagh taHbe "To be or not to be?" That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room.
James Kirk: [[w:Lebensraum|Earth. Hitler, 1938]
].
Chang: [pause]
I beg your pardon?
Gorkon:
Well...I see we have a long way to go.
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Somewhere in Time - Passion for Talent Beyond Physical Attraction
William Fawcett Robinson: [To Richard]
Do you actually believe that I have nurtured her, cared for her, molded, taught, developed her for all these years merely to groom a wife?! A star. Only someone with the limit awareness of your age could possibly conceive that my entire passion for this woman is no more than physical! Are you incapable of understanding that she has it within herself to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest actress of her generation?
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Somewhere in Time - Maintaining Mystery in Performance
William Fawcett Robinson: [To Elise; [mystery]
Now, tomorrow night's performance. Remember, stay ahead of them. Keep the ], always mystery. Excess within control.
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Inside Man - Concern for Protecting Interests
Arthur Case:
I need to be assured that certain interests are protected.
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The Insider - Debate Over Media Integrity and Corporate Influence
Lowell Bergman:
This news division has been vilified by the New York Times, in print, on television, for caving to corporate interests!
Don Hewitt:
The New York Times ran a blow-by-blow of what we talked about behind closed doors! You fucked us!
Lowell Bergman:
NO, YOU FUCKED YOU! Don't invert stuff! Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, YOU bought it. The Wall Street Journal, here: not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! And now, even now, when every word of what Wigand has said on our show is printed, the entire deposition of his testimony in a court of law in the State of Mississippi, the cat TOTALLY out of the bag, you're still standing here debating! Don, what the hell else do you need?
Don Hewitt:
Mike, you tell him.
Mike Wallace:
You fucked up, Don.
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The Insider - Reflections on Legacy and Responsibility
Mike Wallace:
In the real world, when you get to where I am, there are other considerations.
Lowell Bergman:
Like what? Corporate responsibility? What, are we talking celebrity here?
Mike Wallace: [[Malcolm X; [Martin Luther King; [Saddam Hussein|Saddam]
I'm not talking celebrity, vanity, CBS. I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now, what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is "How will I be regarded in the end?" After I'm gone. Now, along the way I suppose I made some minor impact. I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, ], ], ], Sadat, et cetera, et cetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time of life pause? Yeah.
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The Insider - Extraordinary Pressure on Ordinary People
Mike Wallace:
Who are these people?
Lowell Bergman:
Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?
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The Insider - Editing Disputes and Corporate Tensions
Mike Wallace:
You cut it! You cut the guts out of what I said!
Eric Kluster:
It was a time consideration, Mike...
Mike Wallace:
Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey! Who told you your incompetent little fingers had the requisite skills to edit me?
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The Insider - The Short-Lived Nature of Fame and Infamy
Mike Wallace:
Fame has a fifteen minute half-life. Infamy lasts a little longer.
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The Insider - Defending Journalistic Integrity in Television
Mike Wallace:
Mike"? Try "Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation, doesn't mean we work in the same profession. What are you gonna do now? You gonna finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession fifty fucking years. You and the people you work for are destroying the most-respected, the highest-rated, the most-profitable show on this network!
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The Insider - Reflections on Career Choices and Reality
Mike Wallace:
Do me a favor, will you - spare me, for God's sake, get in the real world, what do you think? I'm going to resign in protest? To force it on the air? The answer's "no." I don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio. That decision I've already made.
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The Insider - Interview Conduct and Personal Space
Mike Wallace:
Will you tell him that when I conduct an interview, I sit anywhere I damn please!
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Syriana - Innocence and Investigation in Society
Dean Whiting:
In this town, you're innocent until you're investigated.
Bob Barnes:
Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken.
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Syriana - Depths of Truth and Ambition
Dean Whiting: [to Prince Meshal Al-Subaai]
Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?
Jimmy Pope:
Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.
Max Woodman:
I want pig bacon!
Mussawi:
Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.
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National Treasure - The Secret Legacy of Charles Carroll
John Adams Gates:
OK, here we go. It was 1832, on a night much like this. Charles Carroll was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a member of a secret society known as the Masons, and... he knew he was dying. He woke up his stable boy in the middle of the night and ordered him to take him to the White House to see Andrew Jackson because it was very urgent that he speak to the President.
Young Ben Gates:
Did he talk to him?
John Adams Gates:
No. He never got the chance. The President wasn't there that night, but Charles Carroll had a secret. So he took into his confidence the one person he could: my grandfather's grandfather, Thomas Gates.
Young Ben Gates:
What was his secret?
John Adams Gates: [snaps his fingers]
A treasure! A treasure beyond all imagining. A treasure that had been fought over for centuries by tyrants, pharaohs, emperors, warlords. And every time it changed hands, it grew larger. And then, suddenly, it vanished. It didn't reappear for more than a thousand years when knights from the First Crusade found hidden vaults beneath the Temple of Solomon. You see, the knights who found the vaults believed that the treasure was too great for any one man, not even a king. They brought the treasure back to Europe and took the name... the Knights Templar. Over the next century, they smuggled it out of Europe and formed a new brotherhood known as the Freemasons, in honor of the builders of the Great Temple. War followed. By the time of the American Revolution, the treasure had been hidden again. By then, the Masons came to include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere. They knew they had to make sure the treasure would never fall into the hands of the British, so they devised a series of clues and maps to its location. Over time the clues were lost or forgotten, until only one remained. And that was the secret that Charles Carroll entrusted to young Thomas Gates.
Charles Carroll:
Charlotte.
Young Ben Gates:
Who's Charlotte?
John Adams Gates: [takes out one-dollar bill]
Oh, not even Mr. Carroll knew that. Now, look here, Ben. The Freemasons among our Founding Fathers left us clues like these. The unfinished pyramid, the all-seeing eye. Symbols of the Knights Templar, guardians of the treasure. They are speaking to us through these.
Patrick Gates:
You mean laughing at us. You know what that dollar represents: the entire Gates family fortune. Six generations of fools... chasing after fool's gold.
John Adams Gates:
It's not about the money, Patrick. It's never been about the money!
Patrick Gates:
Come on, son. Time to go. You can say your goodbyes.
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Malcolm X - Discussion on Identity and Heritage
Malcolm X: [about the disciples of Christ]
What color were they?
Chaplain Gill:
Well, I don't think we know that for certain.
Malcolm X:
But they were Hebrews, were they not?
Chaplain Gill:
That's right.
Malcolm X:
As was Jesus. Jesus was also a Hebrew.
Chaplain Gill:
Why don't you just ask your question.
Malcolm X:
What color were the original Hebrews?
Chaplain Gill:
I have told you that we don't know that for certain.
Malcolm X:
Then you can't believe for certain that Jesus was white.
Chaplain Gill: [pointing to a painting of a white Jesus hanging on the wall]
Just... Just a moment. Just a moment. God is white. Isn't it obvious?
Malcolm X: [nodding to the painting]
Well, that is obvious, but we don't know if it's obvious that God is white. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that Jesus did not have blond hair and blue eyes. The honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the images of Jesus that are on prison walls and churches throughout the world are not historically correct because history teaches us that Jesus was born in a region where the people had color. There's proof in the very Bible you ask us to read, in Revelations, first chapter, verse fourteen and fifteen, that Jesus had hair like wool and feet the color of brass.
Chaplain Gill:
Now just... just what are you saying?
Malcolm X:
I'm not saying anything; I'm proving to you that Jesus was not, and I might quote one of my Indian brothers, he was not a pale-face.
Chaplain Gill: [pensively]
Uh-huh.
Malcolm X:
Amen.
Chaplain Gill:
Isn't that interesting.
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A Beautiful Mind - The Limits of Reason in Mental Struggles
Dr. Rosen:
You can't reason your way out of this!
John:
Why not? Why can't I?
Dr. Rosen:
Because your mind is where your problem is in the first place!
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A Beautiful Mind - The Burden of Genius and Reality
Helinger:
Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes, and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians … like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.
Dr. Rosen:
Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?
Dr. Rosen: [to Alicia]
John has schizophrenia, people with this disease are often paranoid.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The Disappearance of Harriet Vanger
Henrik Vanger:
It was then that I noticed Harriet wasn't there. And she wasn't there the next morning, or the next, or the next 40 years.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - A Family of Unpleasant Individuals
Henrik Vanger:
You will be investigating thieves, misers, bullies. The most detestable collection of people you will ever meet. My family.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The Irony of Freedom and Fascism
Henrik Vanger:
Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word "freedom"?
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The Sound of Music - A Farewell to Austria Through Song
Captain Georg von Trapp: [before he sings "Edelweiss" reprise version; singing]
My fellow Austrians, I shall not be seeing you again perhaps for a very long time. I would like to sing for you now... a love song. I know you share this love. I pray that you will never let it die. Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever.Edelweiss, Edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, Edelweiss bless my homeland forever.
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Knives Out - A Letter Reveals Family Secrets
Harlan Thrombey:
I've put all of it in this letter to her. Tomorrow, she gets it.
Richard Drysdale:
Harlan, I'm warning you.
Harlan Thrombey:
No. She deserves to know.
Richard Drysdale:
You stay out of my marriage.
Harlan Thrombey:
She deserves to know and you're gonna tell her.
Richard Drysdale:
THE HELL I AM!!!
Harlan Thrombey:
YOU TELL HER OR I WILL!!!
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