Memorable Quotes from David Clennon
6 quotesLaw School Tensions and Their Impact
Toombs
Kingsfield drove him mad. He's driven a lot of lawyers mad over the past 40 years that he's been teaching here. I heard he ripped up a 1-L this morning so bad, the guy lost his breakfast.
James Hart
That's true. That was me.
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The Weight of Individual Cases
Consul Phil Putnam
Please try to understand. There are so many cases. They're all so important, and this isn't the only one we're working on
Ed Horman
It's the only one I care about.
Consul Phil Putnam
You and a lot of other people. Listen, I've never seen so many cables from Washington. What kind of pull do you have up there anyway?
Ed Horman
I'm an American citizen.
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Demanding Accountability for Injustice
Consul Phil Putnam
Listen, Mr Horman, I wish there was something we could say or do.
Ed Horman
Well, there's something I'm going to do. I'm going to sue you, Phil. And Tower and the Ambassador and everybody who let that boy die. We're going to make it so hot for you you'll wish you were stationed in the Antarctic.
Consul Phil Putnam
Well, I guess that's your privilege.
Ed Horman
No, that's my right! I just thank God we live in a country where we can still put people like you in jail.
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Conflict Over Team Assignments
MacReady
All right, we gotta find him. Nauls, why don’t you come with me and we'll go outside. Palmer, you and Windows check the inside.
Palmer
I ain't going with Windows. I ain't going with him, I'll go with Childs--
Windows
Hey, FUCK YOU, Palmer!
Palmer
I ain't going with you!
Childs
Who says I want you going with me?!
MacReady
ALL RIGHT, CUT THE BULLSHIT! Windows, you come with us. Norris, you stay here. Any of them move, you fry them. You hear anything, anything at all, you cut loose on the sirens. We all meet here in 20 minutes regardless. And everybody watch who you're with, real close.
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Perception of a Gardener's Brilliance
Thomas Franklin
It's that gardener.
Johanna
Yes, Chauncey Gardiner.
Thomas Franklin
No, he's a real gardener.
Johanna
He does talk like one. I think he's brilliant.
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Skepticism Towards Extraterrestrial Claims
MacReady
I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.
Childs
I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.
Palmer
Childs, happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?
Childs
You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?
Palmer
Childs, Childs... ], man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.
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Garry
So, come on now, MacReady, Norwegians get ahold of this... and they dig it up out of the ice.
MacReady
Yes, Garry, they dig it up, they cart it back, it gets thawed out, wakes up - probably not the best of moods - I don't know, I wasn't there!
Nauls
Which one of you disrespectful men been tossing his dirty drawers in the kitchen trash can, huh? From now, I want my kitchen clean, all right? Germ free!
[skates in with ripped long johns]
Childs
So how's this motherfucker wake up after thousands of years in the ice?
Bennings
And how can it look like a dog?
MacReady
I don't know how. Cause it's different than us, see? Cause it's from outer space. What do you want from me? Ask him!
[motions to Blair]
Childs
You buy any of this Blair?
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