Love and Death - Unexpected Betrayal and Miscommunication
Sonja:
Boris! What happened?
Boris Grushenko:
I got screwed.
Sonja:
How?
Boris Grushenko:
I don't know. This vision came and said I was going to get pardoned, and then they shot me.
Sonja:
You were my one great love!
Boris Grushenko:
Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm dead.
Sonja:
What's it like?
Boris Grushenko:
What's it like? You know the chicken at Tresky's Restaurant?
Sonja:
Yeah.
Boris Grushenko:
It's worse.
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Love and Death - Accusations of Jejunosity in Conversation
Sonja:
That is so jejune!
Boris Gruschenko:
Jejune? You have the temerity to accuse me of quoting to you out of jejunosity? I'm the most june person there is!
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Love and Death - The Value of Empty Experiences
Sonja:
Sex without love is an empty experience.
Boris Grushenko:
Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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Love and Death - Unhappiness and Quarrels in Relationships
Sonja:
Oh, Boris, I'm so unhappy.
Boris Grushenko:
Ohh, I wish you weren't.
Sonja:
Voskovec and I quarrel frequently. I've become a scandal.
Boris Grushenko:
Poor Sonja.
Sonja:
For the past weeks, I've visited Seretski in his room.
Boris Grushenko:
Why? What's in his room? Oh...
Sonja:
And before Seretski, Aleksei, and before Aleksei, Alegorian, and before Alegorian, Asimov, and...
Boris Grushenko:
Okay!
Sonja:
Wait, I'm still on the A's.
Boris Grushenko:
How many lovers do you have?
Sonja:
In the mid-town area?
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Love and Death - Justifying Violence in Humanitarian Contexts
Sonja:
Violence is justified in the service of mankind!
Boris Grushenko:
Who said that?
Sonja: [[w:Attila the Hun|Attila the Hun]
].
Boris Grushenko:
You're quoting a Hun to me?
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Love and Death - Contemplating the Void of Existence
Boris Grushenko:
Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness.
Sonja:
What did you say?
Boris Grushenko: [sighs]
Oh , I was just planning my future.
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Love and Death - Questioning Divine Image and Personal Appearance
Boris Grushenko: [sighs]
You think I was made in God's image? Take a look at me. You think he wears glasses?
Sonja:
Not with those frames.
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Love and Death - A Request for an Afternoon Meeting
Him:
Come to my quarters tomorrow at three.
Sonja:
I can't.
Him:
Please.
Sonja:
It is immoral. What time?
Him:
Who is to say what is moral?
Sonja:
Morality is subjective.
Him:
Subjectivity is objective.
Sonja:
Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.
Him:
Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.
Sonja:
Could we not talk about sex so much?
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Love and Death - A Debate on Duty and Maternal Concern
Sonja:
Boris, you can't be serious, you're talking about Mother Russia.
Boris:
She's not my mother. My mother's standing right here, and she's not gonna let her youngest baby get shrapnel in his gums.
Mother:
He'll go and he'll fight, and I hope they will put him in the front lines.
Boris:
Thanks a lot, Mom. My mother, folks.
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Love and Death - Existential Dilemmas and Moral Choices
Sonya:
But, if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?
Boris Gruschenko:
Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out and then read in the paper that they found something.
Sonja:
Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?
Boris Grushenko:
Murder's immoral.
Sonja:
Immorality is subjective.
Boris Grushenko:
Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Sonja:
Not in a rational scheme of perception.
Boris Grushenko:
Perception is irrational. It implies immanence.
Sonja:
But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.
Boris Grushenko:
Yeah, I've said that many times.
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Love and Death - The Cost of Perception in Reality
Sonja:
I do believe that this is truly the best of all possible worlds.
Boris Grushenko:
Well, it's certainly the most expensive.
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Love and Death - The Paradox of Love and Suffering
Sonja:
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.
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Father of the Bride Part II - Embracing Youthfulness in a Changing Era
Nina Banks:
Just because we're older doesn't mean we're old. This is the 90s.
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Father of the Bride - Bailing Out George for Hot Dog Buns
Nina: [coming to bail out George from the city lock-up]
Hello, George.
George:
Why do you look happy to see me in here, Nina?
Nina:
Happy? No, no, no. I'm not happy George. You think I was happy to tell everyone that I had to come down to the city jail and bail you out for stealing hot dog buns?
George:
I wasn't stealing...
Nina:
Ah!
George:
I was just...
Nina Banks:
Ah! I'm going to have to ask you not to talk, or I'll have to call Officer What's-his-name over there. You've been more than I can handle, George. Annie's wedding is not a conspiracy against you. It's just a wedding. People have them every day in every country in the world. I know it's going to be expensive, but we don't go to Europe. We don't own fancy cars. I don't own expensive jewelry, so we can afford to have a big wedding.
George:
Nina...
Nina:
I'll get you out of here on one condition, Banks: that you agree to the following. Now, repeat after me. "I, George Stanley Banks...
George: [Swallowing his pride]
I, George Stanley Banks...
Nina:
Promise to pull it together and act my age.
George:
Promise to pull it together and act my age.
Nina:
I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, unbuttoning my top collar button...
George:
I don't unbutton my top collar...
Nina: [Motions to his collar]
Oh, no, you mean this bit here?
George:
I will stop hyperventilating, rolling my eyes, and unbuttoning my top collar button.
Nina:
I will stop making faces in general, and I will certainly stop telling everyone I meet how much this wedding is costing.
George:
I don't tell everyone how much it costs!
Nina:
He told you, right?
Officer:
$250 a head?
George:
Oh, well thanks.
Nina:
I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes, I am taking away a piece of her happiness.
George:
I love you, Nina.
Nina:
Just repeat the last bit.
George:
I will try to remember my daughter's feelings, and how, with every roll of my eyes, I am taking away a piece of her happiness.
Nina:
I love you too. Let's go home, okay?
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Sleeper - Skepticism About Science and Relationships
Luna Schlosser:
But Miles, don't you see? Meaningful relationships between men and women don't last. That was proven by science. You see, there's a chemical in our bodies that makes it so that we all get on each other's nerves sooner or later.
Miles Monroe:
Hey, that's science. I don't believe in science. I'm, I'm, you know, science is a, an intellectual dead-end. You know, it's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
Luna Schlosser:
Oh, I see. You don't believe in science, and you also don't believe that political systems work, and you don't believe in God, huh?
Miles Monroe:
Right.
Luna Schlosser:
So then, what do you believe in?
Miles Monroe: [[death]
Sex and ] - two things that come once in a lifetime... but at least after death, you're not nauseous.
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Sleeper - Discussion of a muscular rebel chieftain
Miles Monroe:
You'd probably feel a lot safer with Mr. White Teeth back there.
Luna Schlosser:
Who?
Miles Monroe:
The Rebel Chieftain with the wall-to-wall muscles on his chest.
Luna Schlosser:
You mean, Erno?
Miles Monroe:
Yeah, Erno. It's a great name, if you happen to be the star of a vampire movie.
Luna Schlosser:
He's brilliant.
Miles Monroe:
Yeah. He couldn't be with us today. He's got to go take his handsome lesson.
Luna Schlosser:
Are you jealous?
Miles Monroe:
Jealous? Are kidding, honey? With a body like mine, you don't get jealous.
Luna Schlosser:
Certainly you don't expect me to tie myself down to one man. My love is a free gift to all the Bolshevik Brothers.
Miles Monroe:
Do what you want. You're over 21. Little Tramp!
Luna Schlosser:
We're here on business.
Miles Monroe: [[robot]
Free love. I created a Bohemian monster. Next thing you know, she'll wanna have group sex with the ]s.
Luna Schlosser:
Will you shut up? You're attracting attention.
Miles Monroe: [[book]
Give her a couple of ]s to read, and right away, she's Miss Pseudo-Intellectual, Neo-Fascist, Hegelian, Freudian Monster.
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Sleeper - Modern Perspectives on Relationships and Heritage
Luna Schlosser:
Sex is different today. You see, we don't have any problems. Everybody's frigid.
Miles Monroe:
Oh, that's incredible. So are the men impotent?
Luna Schlosser:
Yeah, most of them, except for the ones whose ancestors are Italian.
Miles Monroe:
Alright, I knew there was something in that pasta.
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Sleeper - Unconventional Approaches to Intimacy and Connection
Luna Schlosser:
Do you want to perform sex with me?
Miles Monroe:
Perform sex? Uh, uh, I don't think I'm up to a performance, but I'll rehearse with you, if you like.
Luna Schlosser: [[machine]
Okay. I just thought you might want to; they have a ] here.
Miles Monroe:
Machine? I'm not getting into that thing. I, I'm strictly a hand operator; you know, I, I... I don't like anything with moving parts that are not my own.
Luna Schlosser:
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for 200 years.
Miles Monroe:
204, if you count my marriage.
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Sleeper - Humor in Academic and Personal Skills
Luna Schlosser:
Men go crazy over for me. I'm great physically. I got a Ph.D. in oral sex.
Miles Monroe:
Yeah, they make you take any Spanish with that?
Luna Schlosser:
What?
Miles Monroe: [[Chaucer]
Well, I don't know. I was an English major, myself. You know, ], Pope, I minored in foreplay. It's a two credit course at NYU.
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Sleeper - Desire for Comfort Amidst Discomfort
Luna Schlosser:
Please! I wanna go home! I'm getting a headache! I'm hungry! I haven't had a stress pill! I haven't had a bath in seven hours! I'm telling you, I'm not accustomed to this. I need my orb! I want to relax. Look at me! Look at me. I'm shaking!
Miles Monroe:
Gee, you know you'd be great to take on a camping trip.
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Sleeper - Exploring Discontent in a World of Wonders
Luna Schlosser:
I absolutely do not want to hear about it, Herald. This world is so full of wonderful things. What makes people suddenly go berserk and hate everything anyway? I mean, why does there have to be an underground? After all, there's the Orb, and there's the telescreen, and there's the Orgasmatron. What more do they want?
Herald Cohen: [[beauty]
It's hard for us to understand the criminal element. We're artists. We respond only - to ].
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Sleeper - Luna's Poetic Success and Greeting Card Sales
Luna Schlosser: [[poems]
I am a renowned poet. I sell 20 to 30 ] a week, plus greeting cards.
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Annie Hall - Reflections on Love and Relationships
Annie Hall: [[w:AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes|American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations]
* Ranked #55 in the ] in American cinema.
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Annie Hall - Expressing a carefree attitude
Annie Hall: [repeated line]
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
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Reds - Conflict of Love and Self-Interest
Jack Reed:
Louise, I love you.
Louise Bryant:
No, you love yourself! Me, you FUCK!
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Reds - Prioritizing Passion Over Practicality in Rehearsal
Louise Bryant:
Would you rather I not smoke during rehearsal?
Eugene O'Neill:
I'd rather you went up in flames than crush out your cigarette during a monologue about birth.
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Reds - The Nature of Decency and Belief
Lee Slater Overman:
Are there no decent, God-fearing Christians among the Bolsheviks?
Louise Bryant:
Does one have to be God-fearing and Christian to be decent?
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Reds - Louise Bryant's Bold Statement to Mr. Reed
Louise Bryant:
I'd like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed.
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The Godfather - Michael Tells Kay How They Know Johnny Fontane
Kay Adams:
Michael, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane!
Michael Corleone:
Sure, you want to meet him?
Kay Adams:
Well, yeah! Sure.
Michael Corleone:
My father helped him with his career.
Kay Adams:
How did he do that?
Michael Corleone:
...Let's listen to the song.
Kay Adams: [after listening to Johnny for a while]
Tell me, Michael. Please.
Michael Corleone:
Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to a personal services contract with this big-band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. But the band leader wouldn't let him. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. So my father went to see this bandleader and offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went back, only this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, he had a signed release for a certified check of $1000.
Kay Adams:
How did he do that?
Michael Corleone:
My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Kay Adams:
What was that?
Michael Corleone:
Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.
Kay Adams:
...
Michael Corleone:
...That's a true story.
The Godfather - Kay Being Naive
Michael Corleone:
My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams:
Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael Corleone:
Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?