Kevin Costner Quotes

Wyatt Earp

A Warning Between Two Rivals

Johnny Behan I want to see you Wyatt.

Wyatt Earp If you're not careful, you'll see me once too often, Johnny.

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Wyatt Earp

Choose to Fight or Leave the Battle

Wyatt Earp The fight has now commenced, go to fighting or get away!

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Field of Dreams

Reflections on Childhood and Baseball's Importance

Ray Kinsella By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was fourteen I started refusing. Can you believe that? An American boy refusing to have a catch with his father.

Terence Mann Why fourteen?

Ray Kinsella That's when I read "The Boat Rocker", by Terence Mann.

Terence Mann Oh, God.

Ray Kinsella Never played catch with him again.

Terence Mann You see? That's the kind of crap people are always trying to lay on me. It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father!

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Hidden Figures

Anticipation for the IBM Machine

Al Harrison Where’s the machine?

Ruth Any day now, Mr. Harrison.

Al Harrison Any day now. What’s it called? The initials...the letters?

Ruth IBM.

Paul Stafford International business machine.

Al Harrison Space is business?! I need a mathematician.

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Field of Dreams

Reflecting on Dreams and Missed Moments

Dr. Graham It was like coming this close to your dreams and then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd. At the time, you don't think much of it. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, Well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day. And now, Ray Kinsella, I want to ask you a question. What's so interesting about a half an inning that would make you come all the way from Iowa to talk to me about it 50 years after it happened?

Ray Kinsella I really didn't know till just now, but I think it's to ask you if you could do anything you wanted, if you could have a-a wish.

Dr. Graham And that you're the kind of a man who could grant me that wish?

Ray Kinsella I don't know. I'm just asking.

Dr. Graham Well, you know, I-I never got to bat in the major leagues. I'd have liked to have had that chance just once, to stare down a big-league pitcher. To stare him down, then just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn't. That's what I wish for. The chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingle in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases, stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That's my wish, Ray Kinsella. That's my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?

Ray Kinsella What would you say if I said yes?

Dr. Graham I think I'd actually believe you.

Ray Kinsella Well, sir, there's a place where things like that happen, and if you want to go, I can take you.

Dr. Graham This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child. I can't leave Chisholm.

Ray Kinsella Fifty years ago, for five minutes you came within... y-you came this close. It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not touch it. God, they'd consider it a tragedy.

Dr. Graham Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes... now that would have been a tragedy.

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Swing Vote

American Identity and National Pastimes

President Andrew Boone Do you like football?

Bud Johnson I'm an American, aren't I?

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Wyatt Earp

Lack of Community Resources in Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp We had no YMCA's.

[To biographer Stuart Lake, when asked late in life why he'd spent so much time in saloons.]

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Wyatt Earp

Defiance Against Arrest in Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp I won't be arrested today. You threw us, Johnny.

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Waterworld

Recognition on the Water's Surface

Mariner I've seen your boat before. Haven't seen you.

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For Love of the Game

Heartbreak and Loss in Sports

Jane Aubrey You ever gotten your heart broken?

Billy Chapel Yeah. When we lost the pennant in 87.

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Wyatt Earp

Patience is crucial in urgent situations

Wyatt Earp In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry

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Hidden Figures

Understanding the Limitations of Redstone Rocket

Paul Stafford How did you know the Redstone couldn't support orbital flight? That's classified information; it's top secret.

Katherine Johnson Well, it's no secret why the Redstone tests keep failing. It's fine for sub-orbital flight, but it can't handle the weight of the capsule and push it into space. Numbers don't lie.

Al Harrison And you figured all that out with this? Half of that is redacted.

[reading the censored test results documents]

Katherine Johnson Well, what's there tells a story if you read between the lines. The distance from launch to orbit, we know. Redstone mass, we know. Mercury capsule weight, we know. And the speeds are there, and the data.

Al Harrison You did the math.

Katherine Johnson Yes, sir. I look beyond.

Al Harrison And how did you know about the Atlas rocket? That's not math. That data's not here. Like he said, it's classified.

Katherine Johnson ...I held it up to the light.

Al Harrison You held it up to the light?

Katherine Johnson Yes, sir.

Al Harrison ...Well, there it is. "Atlas". What's your name?

Katherine Johnson Katherine Gobal.

Al Harrison Are you a spy, Katherine?

Katherine Johnson Am I what?

Al Harrison I said, are you a Russian spy?

Katherine Johnson No, sir. I'm not Russian.

Ruth She's not Russian, sir.

Al Harrison Alright, then, we have nothing to lose, here. Give her everything she needs to work on Shepherd's trajectories, without redaction. Are we clear on that?

[to Stafford]

Paul Stafford Are we sure about this?

Al Harrison What's the issue, Paul? You heard her, she's not a spy.

Paul Stafford I–I just don't think it's a good idea.

Al Harrison You know what I think is a good idea? Darker ink. I think darker ink is a good idea. Ruth, could you pass that along?

Ruth Yes, sir.

Al Harrison Thank you, Katherine.

Katherine Johnson Thank you, sir.

[leaves with Ruth]

Al Harrison This interrogation's over.

[after Ruth and Katherine leave, looks to Paul]

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Man of Steel

Embracing Destiny and Responsibility

Jonathan Kent You're not just anyone, Clark, and I have to believe that you're–that you're sent here for a reason. All these changes you're going through, one day–one day, you're goin'a think of them as a blessing, and when that day comes, you're goin'a have to make a choice: a choice of whether to stand proud in front of the human race or not.

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Hidden Figures

Rethinking the Approach to Orbital Calculations

Katherine Johnson The problem is when the capsule moves from an elliptical orbit to a parabolic orbit; There's no mathematical formula for that. Cause we can calculate launch and landing, but without this conversion, the capsule stays in orbit. We can't bring it back home.

Al Harrison ...Maybe we've been thinking about this all wrong.

Paul Stafford And how's that?

Al Harrison Maybe it's not new math at all.

Katherine Johnson It could be old math: something that looks at the problem numerically and not theoretically. Math is always dependable.

Al Harrison For you, it is.

Katherine Johnson Euler's Method.

[takes a long look at the formulas, then gets an idea]

Paul Stafford Euler's Method?

Katherine Johnson Yes.

Paul Stafford But that's ancient.

Katherine Johnson But it works. It works numerically.

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For Love of the Game

Focus and Clarity in the Moment

Billy Chapel Clear the mechanism.

[repeated line - his trick for concentration]

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Mr. Brooks

Questioning Choices and Motivations in Life

Tracy Atwood Atwood.

Earl Brooks Why are you a cop?

Tracy Atwood Who is this?

Earl Brooks You're rich, you have a good education. You could have gone into your father's business. Instead, you became successful on your own. Why?

Tracy Atwood If you don't tell me who you are, I'm going to hang up.

Earl Brooks You didn't really think your husband's killing was random, did you? And I certainly didn't have to give you Meeks.

Tracy Atwood Mr. Baffert? You don't sound like you.

Earl Brooks Well, I have a little cold.

Tracy Atwood Where are you?

Earl Brooks I'll tell you if you give me an answer to my question.

Tracy Atwood My father was very disappointed that I was born a girl... and he let me know it. I've spent my whole life trying to prove him wrong.

Earl Brooks Thank you.

[smiles]

Tracy Atwood Wait a minute. You promised to tell me where you are.

Earl Brooks Me? I'm on top of a building.

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Wyatt Earp

A Call for Disarmament and Peace

Wyatt Earp Mind me now, Mannen, put up those guns and go on home.

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Swing Vote

Intelligence in Leadership Discussion

Bud Johnson You guys protect the President!

Lewis She's... she's smarter.

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For Love of the Game

Misunderstanding About Deodorant Brands

Jane Aubrey I need a regular guy. Not the guy in the Old Spice commercials.

Billy Chapel It was Right Guard.

Jane Aubrey What?

Billy Chapel It was Right Guard, not Old Spice.

Jane Aubrey I was being metaphorical.

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For Love of the Game

A Farewell to the Game He Loves

Billy Chapel Tell them I'm through, "for love of the game", Billy Chapel

[writing on a baseball]

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The Untouchables

A Personal Reckoning of Morality and Justice

Eliot Ness I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right!

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Hidden Figures

Acknowledgment of Responsibility and Its Limits

Al Harrison If I said I was sorry, I'd be saying it all day.

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Swing Vote

Defining Worth and Legacy in Life Choices

President Andrew Boone Sometimes you gotta figure out what you want in this life. Then you have to decide how much this *is* worth to you. Because they got to put it on your tombstone. It's your legacy. A measure of what you left behind.

Bud Johnson Are we, uh, are we still talking about the job?

President Andrew Boone Uh...

Bud Johnson The lobby business?

President Andrew Boone Right, forget that. It's not worth it.

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JFK

Mystery of the President's Assassination

Jim Garrison Who killed the President?

David Ferrie Oh, man, why don't you fucking stop it? Shit! This is too fucking big for you, you know that? Who did the President? Who killed Kennedy? Fuck, man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?! Fuck, man! I can't keep talking like this! They're gonna fucking kill me! I'm gonna fucking die! Son of a bitch!

[smokes a joint, then cracks]

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Mr. Brooks

The Evolution of a Notorious Killer

Earl Brooks Before I was the Thumbprint Killer, Mr. Smith, I killed a lot of people in a lot of different ways.

[after the killing blow to Mr. Smith]

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Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp on Friendship and Loyalty

Wyatt Earp I am a friend of Doc Holliday, because when I was city marshal of ] he came to my rescue and saved my life, when I was surrounded by desperados.

[[Dodge City, Kansas,]

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Swing Vote

Hot Water Debate Between Father and Daughter

Bud Johnson Did you save me any hot water?

Molly Johnson I don't know, did the water heater fix itself?

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Swing Vote

Leadership Beyond Words

Bud Johnson America needs someone who's bigger than their speeches.

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JFK

The Complexity of Justice and Truth

Jim Garrison Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought justice came automatically. That virtue was its own reward. That good triumphs over evil. But as we get older, we know this isn't true. Individual human beings have to create justice, and this is not easy because the truth often poses a threat to power and one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves.

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3000 Miles to Graceland

Confronting Consequences of Actions

Thomas J. Murphy You want karma, asshole?

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Field of Dreams

Identity and Connection in Field of Dreams

Ray Kinsella My name's Ray Kinsella. You used my father's name in one of your stories: John Kinsella.

Terence Mann You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you?

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Mr. Brooks

A Darkly Humorous Take on Driving Choices

Earl Brooks Maybe I should drive over there and pick him up.

[about Mr. Smith]

Marshall No, just honk. Maybe he'll get killed crossing the street. Save us the mess of doing it.

Earl Brooks Almost.

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Swing Vote

Respect in Conversations about Beliefs

Bud Johnson Jesus, Molly, you've got to quit being such a smartass all the time.

Molly Johnson And you have to stop using "Jesus" as a cussword all the time. He's a billion people's Saviour.

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Mr. Brooks

A Dangerous Inheritance Unfolds

Marshall She did it, didn't she?

Earl Brooks Yeah. It'll take the cops a week to ten days to put their case together, and then... and then they will come back and arrest her.

Marshall What are you going to do?

Earl Brooks Oh, God. Oh, God. I was afraid of this since before she was born. She has... she has what I have.

Marshall Yes, she does. But you were always smart about it. She was stupid. She did it because she got off - okay, I understand. She's in it for fun - okay, I understand. But why didn't she think it through? A hatchet? And she left it there.

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Wyatt Earp

Confrontation and Challenge in Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp I think you came here to make a fight with me, and if you did, you can have one here right now.

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Bull Durham

The Importance of a Winning Streak

Crash Davis Never fuck with a winning streak.

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JFK

Questioning Credibility in Court Testimony

Bill Broussard None of their testimony is gonna hold up in court, Chief. Hell, all three of them have reputations as low as crocodile piss.

Jim Garrison That bother you, Bill? I always wonder why it is in court if a woman's a prostitute, she has to have bad eyesight.

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Bull Durham

Embracing Eccentricity in Life's Moments

Crash Davis I've been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

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For Love of the Game

Maintaining Dignity Amidst Public Scrutiny

Billy Chapel There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you.

[consoling Mickey Hart after an embarrassing play in [[w:Fenway Park|Fenway Park]

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Swing Vote

Questioning Political Views in Swing Vote

Molly Johnson Sign this.

Bud Johnson What is it?

Molly Johnson A questionnaire. I'm supposed to ask you about your politics.

Bud Johnson Well, uh, go ahead...

Molly Johnson I already filled it in. I wanted you to sound smart.

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3000 Miles to Graceland

The Value of Power Over Wealth

Thomas J. Murphy You know the golden rule: fuck the gold. He who has a nickel-plated makes the rules.

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JFK

The Politics of Power and Assassination

Jim Garrison I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the Establishment. Is that why?

X Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The How and the Who is just scenery for the public. ], ], Cuba, the Mafia, keeps em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?...The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. And Kennedy wanted to end the ] in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race in favor of cooperation with the Soviets. He signed a treaty with the Soviets to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade Cuba in 1962 and he set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all of that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. As early as 1961, they knew Kennedy was not going to war in Southeast Asia. Like ], he is surrounded by enemies and something's underway, but it has no face. Yet everybody in the loop knows...Everything is cellularized. No one has said, He must die. There's been no vote. Nothing's on paper. There's no one to blame. It's as old as the crucifixion. A military firing squad: five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty, because everyone in the power structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, no matter how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'état....

[[w:Lee Harvey Oswald|Oswald; [w:Jack Ruby|Ruby; [w:Cold War|Cold War; [Julius Caesar|Caesar]

Jim Garrison I don't, I can't - I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things. In our time. In our country.

X Well, they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison. Politics is power, nothing more! Oh, don't take my word for it, don't believe me. Do your own work, your own thinkin'....

Jim Garrison The size of this is beyond me. Testify...Testify.

X No chance in hell. No, I'd be arrested and gagged, maybe sent to an institution, maybe worse, you too. I can give you the background, but you have to find the foreground, the little things. Keep digging. Remember, you're the only person to bring a trial in the murder of John Kennedy. That's important, it's historic.

Jim Garrison I haven't yet. I don't have much of a case.

X You don't have a choice anymore. You've become a significant threat to the national security structure. They would have killed you already but you got a lot of light on you. Instead, they're trying to destroy your credibility. They already have in many circles in this town. Be honest. Your only chance is to come up with a case. Something. Anything. Make arrests. Stir the shit storm. Hope to reach a point of critical mass that'll start a chain reaction of people coming forward. Then the government'll crack. Remember, fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth, and the truth is on your side, Bubba. I just hope you get a break.

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For Love of the Game

Love and Friendship in Difficult Circumstances

Jane Aubrey What if my face was all scraped off and I was totally disfigured and had no arms and legs and I was completely paralyzed. Would you still love me?

Billy Chapel No. But we could still be friends.

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Mr. Brooks

Uncovering Hidden Truths in Mr. Brooks

Earl Brooks Well, we were right. She was hiding something.

[talking about Jane]

Marshall Pregnant's not all of it. She's hiding something, bigger. Something much bigger.

Earl Brooks You think so?

Marshall I know so... and so do you.

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Waterworld

Exploration Beyond Dreams and Experience

Mariner Because I haven't seen it. And I've sailed further than most men have dreamed.

[''Referring to dry land'']

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Waterworld

Ownership and Independence on the Water

Mariner This is my boat. I got it the way I like it. You take up space and you slow me down.

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For Love of the Game

A Plea for Relief in Baseball

Billy Chapel God, I always said I would never bother You about baseball, always seemed silly. But if You could make this pain in my shoulder stop for ten minutes...

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Swing Vote

Understanding and Uncertainty in Conversation

Bud Johnson I know exactly what you mean, Andy.

President Andrew Boone Do you?

Bud Johnson Maybe not...

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Bull Durham

Frustration Over a Poor Decision

Crash Davis That was a cocksucking call!

[Complaining to an umpire]

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Swing Vote

Nostalgia for Simple Weekend Activities

Kate Madison Remember when we were kids? This was the only thing to do on weekends.

[bowling]

Bud Johnson It still is.

[laughs]

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Wyatt Earp

Self-Defense in the Face of Danger

Wyatt Earp I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self defense, and in the performance of official duty. When Billy Clanton and Frank McLowry drew their pistolsl I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday.

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Mr. Brooks

Consequences of Recklessness and Ignorance

Marshall What the fuck is this?! Fucking pigs liked to do it with the curtains open. You should have known that. This is a big mistake for you, Earl!

Earl Brooks Almost as if I wanted to get caught, eh, Marshall?

Marshall Well, don't fucking do that! I don't think either of us would enjoy spending the rest of our lives on death row, or a lethal injection!

Earl Brooks Yes, sir.

[closing the curtains]

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Man of Steel

Choosing the Man You Want to Be

Jonathan Kent You'll just have to decide what kind of man you'll want to grow up to be, Clark, because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's–he's gonna change the world.

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Swing Vote

Discussion About Egg Salad

Bud Johnson What's that?

Molly Johnson Egg salad.

Bud Johnson Egg salad?

Molly Johnson You like egg salad.

Bud Johnson Yeah, but not every damn day I don't.

Molly Johnson We're on a budget.

Bud Johnson Well, you've got to stir it up a little.

Molly Johnson You want to eat better? Drink less beer.

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For Love of the Game

Appreciation for the Game of Baseball

Billy Chapel The game doesn't stink, Mr. Wheeler. It's a great game.

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Waterworld

Unexpected Recognition in a Tense Moment

Deacon Why aren't you rowing?

[''After the deck of the Deez clears, one lone figure walks toward the bridge''; ''The Mariner removes his mask'']

Nord It's him.

[''Derisively laughs'']

Enola It is him! You guys are in so much trouble!

Deacon Well, I'll be damned. It's the gentleman guppy.

Nord You know, he's like a turd that won't flush.

Mariner I want the girl.

Deacon You know, I thought you were stupid, friend. But I underestimated you. You are a total freaking retard!

[''Derisively laughs']

Mariner I want the girl. That's all.

Deacon Well, what on this screwed-up earth of ours makes you think you're gonna get her? ] from his belt, and holds it over a fume pipe leading down to the Deez's fuel hold]

[''The Mariner takes [[Flare#Roadside and rail|a flare]

Mariner You know what this is. I drop it, you burn.

Doctor We all burn...

Deacon Now-now-now, let's not do anything rash here. I mean, are you sure this kid is worth it? I mean, she never does stop talking, she never shuts up!

Mariner I noticed.

Deacon So what is it, then? It's the map.

Mariner She's my friend.

Deacon Golly gee, a single tear rolls down my cheek. You're gonna die for your friend.

Mariner If it comes to that.

[''Ignites the flare, and holds it over the fume pipe again'']

Nord He's bluffing! I'll kill him.

Enola He's not bluffing, he never bluffs.

Deacon SHUT UP! I- I- I- I- I don't think you're gonna drop that torch, my friend.

[''To the Mariner'']

Mariner Why not?

Deacon Because you're not crazy. NO...!

[''The Mariner smiles, lifts his hand, and drops the flare down the hole'']

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For Love of the Game

Misunderstanding Between Jane and Billy

Jane Aubrey It's not mine.

Billy Chapel You mean it doubles as a flashlight?

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Hidden Figures

Unity in Achieving Goals

Al Harrison We get to the peak together, or we don't get there at all.

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Swing Vote

Importance of Voting on Election Day

Molly Johnson Don't forget today.

Bud Johnson Yeah, uh, what's today?

Molly Johnson Election Day, dummy. I'm supposed to do a report on your voting, remember?

Bud Johnson Well, I already told you before, I'm not even registered.

Molly Johnson I registered for you, in the mail.

Bud Johnson Well, that's great. I'll get jury duty now...

Molly Johnson It's your civic responsibility.

Bud Johnson My what?

Molly Johnson It's your civic responsibility.

Bud Johnson My civic responsibility, where are you learning this crap?

Molly Johnson Mrs. Abernathy.

Bud Johnson Yeah, well, stay away from her.

Molly Johnson She's my teacher.

Bud Johnson Ah.

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Bull Durham

Front Rose Placement in Baseball Uniform

Crash Davis The rose goes on the front, big guy.

[Adjusts Nuke's garter belt]

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JFK

The Duty of the People in Justice

Jim Garrison ] wrote, Authority forgets a dying king'. This was never more true than for John F. Kennedy, whose murder was probably one the most terrible moments in the history of our country. We, the people, the jury system sitting in judgment on Clay Shaw, represent the hope of humanity against government power. In discharging your duty, in bringing the first conviction in this house of cards against Clay Shaw, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Do not forget your dying king. Show this world that this is still a government of the people, for the people, and by the people'. Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important. It's up to you.

[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]

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Field of Dreams

Is This Heaven or Just Iowa?

Ray Kinsella You catch a good game.

John Kinsella Thank you. It's so beautiful here. For me, well, for me, it's like a dream come true. Can I ask you something? Is, is this heaven?

Ray Kinsella It's — it's Iowa.

John Kinsella I could have sworn it was heaven.

Ray Is there a heaven?

John Kinsella Oh, yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.

Ray Maybe this is heaven.

John Kinsella Well, good night Ray.

Ray Kinsella Good night, John.

Ray Kinsella Hey... Dad?

Ray Kinsella You wanna have a catch?

[choked up]

John Kinsella I'd like that. Very much.

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For Love of the Game

Baseball Conversations in For Love of the Game

Gus Sinski How ya doing, ace?

Billy Chapel Anybody been on base?

Gus Sinksi No way.

[Shakes his head]

Billy Chapel Nobody?

[Surprised]

Gus Sinksi This, I ain't seen much of.

Billy Chapel Me neither.

Gus Sinski Chappie...I never have. What's the matter?

[Billy hangs his head]

Billy Chapel I don't know if I have anything left.

Gus Sinski Chappie, you just throw whatever you got. Whatever's left. The boys are all here for you, we'll back you up, we'll be there. Cause Billy...we don't stink right now. We're the best team in baseball, right now, right this minute, because of you. You're the reason. We're not gonna screw that up, we're gonna be awesome for you right now. Just. Throw. Alright?

[sees the home plate umpire coming to the mound and waves him off before turning back to Billy]

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Wyatt Earp

Confrontation and Justification of Violence

Wyatt Earp You damned dirty cur thief, you have been threatening our lives, and I know it. I think I should be justified shooting you down any place I should meet you, but if you are anxious to make a fight, I will go anywhere on earth to make a fight with you, even over to the San Simon among your own crowd.

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Field of Dreams

Desire for Privacy and Individual Thinking

Ray Kinsella Don't you miss being involved?

Terence Mann I was the East Coast distributor of involved'. I ate it, drank it, and breathed it. Then they killed ], they killed ], they elected ] twice. And people like you think I must be miserable because I'm not involved anymore. Well, I've got news for you. I spent all my misery years ago. I have no more pain for anything. I gave at the office.

[[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin; [Robert F. Kennedy|Bobby; [Richard Nixon|Tricky Dick]

Ray Kinsella So, what do you want?

Terence Mann I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.

Ray Kinsella I mean, what do you want?

[''Gestures toward concession stand.'']

Terence Mann Oh. Dog and a beer.

Ray Kinsella Two of those.

Concession stand worker Seven bucks.

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Bull Durham

The Impact of Small Differences in Performance

Crash Davis You know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points, okay? There's six months in a season; that's about twenty-five weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week, just one; A gork, a groundball—you get a groundball with eyes—you get a dying quail...just one more dying quail a week, and you're in Yankee Stadium.

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Swing Vote

Questioning Wealth Disparity in America

Bud Johnson If this is one of the richest countries in the world, why is it so many of us can barely afford living here?

[reading a letter]

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Wyatt Earp

A Complex Portrait of Doc

Wyatt Earp Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew.

[Holliday]

JFK

Questioning National Security and Its Implications

Jim Garrison Treason doth never prosper, wrote an ], What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. The American public has yet to see the ]. Why? The American public has yet to see the real X-rays and photographs of the autopsy. Why? There are hundreds of documents that could help prove this conspiracy. Why are they being withheld or burned by the government? Each time my office or you the people have asked those questions, demanded crucial evidence, the answer from on high has always been national security. What kind of national security do we have when we've been robbed of our leaders? What national security permits the removal of fundamental power from the hands of the American people and validates the ascendancy of an invisible government in the United States? That kind of national security, gentlemen of the jury, is when it smells like it, feels like it, and looks like it, you call it what it is: Fascism!

[[John Harington (inventor)|English poet; [w:Zapruder film|Zapruder film]

Field of Dreams

No Rules in the Encounter

Terence Mann I'm going to beat you with a crowbar until you leave.

Ray Kinsella You can't do that.

Terence Mann There are rules here? No, there are no rules here.

[advances with crowbar]

Ray Kinsella You're a pacifist!

Terence Mann Shit.

[stops]

For Love of the Game

The Consequences of Reliability in Sports

Frank Perry Well, since you're throwing bullets, I'm not even gonna mention the fact that you're an hour late, and I have been standing here trying to figure out who my starting pitcher would be if you didn't show up.

[Billy is warming up in the bullpen before the game]

Billy Chapel Have I ever not showed? In the 19 years, have I ever not showed?

Frank Perry Well, that's true of everyone until the first time they don't show.

Mr. Brooks

A Dark Proposal Between Killers

Earl Brooks How did you find me, Mr. Smith?

Mr. Smith You're "Man of the Year", Mr. Brooks. Your picture's in the paper. And if it hadn't had been, I don't know. I don't know what I would've done.

[claps]

Earl Brooks Lucky me. What is it that I can help you with?

Mr. Smith I've been watching that couple for months. Yeah, they like to make love with the blinds open. Sometimes I would take pictures; visual aids for later. It's a great way to get off, I'll tell you that. It was fun, I thought, until I saw you kill them. And I have never, ever, felt a... a... rush that like, ever! I know you're the Thumbprint Killer. You've done this before. What I want... is for you to take me with you next time you kill someone. And I'd like that to be soon.

[lowers voice]

Marshall And you were worried that this was going to be unpleasant? The answer is simple. Just tell Mr. Smith that you decided never to kill again, and he'll go away.

[sarcastically]

Earl Brooks You enjoy watching me suffer, don't you?

Marshall In a word, yes.

Earl Brooks Where do you think he has the other pictures?

Marshall He put them in a safety deposit box. But I'll bet the box is at the bank where he keeps his checking account. The key... is on his key chain! He really wants to do this. He's not going to the cops.

Hidden Figures

First to Arrive Sets the Rules

Al Harrison Whoever gets there first will make the rules.

JFK

The Power of a Big Lie

Jim Garrison Hitler always said: "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.

Swing Vote

The Weight of a Secret Vote

Molly Johnson Maybe I should tell them the truth.

Bud Johnson What're you talking about? Tell them what?

Molly Johnson That I was going to be the one to cast the vote.

For Love of the Game

Disdain for the Yankees in Sports Rivalry

Billy Chapel Sam Tuttle. I can't think of a better reason not to be a Yankee.

[to himself, pitching to Sam Tuttle]

3000 Miles to Graceland

Recognition Between Familiar Faces

Thomas J. Murphy You recognize me now? I recognize you.

[last lines]

Man of Steel

Understanding Fear of the Unknown

Jonathan Kent People are afraid of what they don't understand.

For Love of the Game

Recognition of New York's Unique Presence

Billy Chapel I can always tell when I'm in New York.

[Hearing Yankee fans boo and jeer him]

Bull Durham

Classiness and Success in Professional Baseball

Crash Davis Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the Show, you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the Show, however, it means you're a slob.

[To Nuke]

JFK

The Search for Truth Across Generations

Jim Garrison It may become a generational affair. Questions passed from father to son, mother to daughter. But someday, somewhere, someone may find out the damned Truth. We better. We better or we might just as well build ourselves another government like the Declaration of Independence says to when the old one ain't working - just - just a little farther out West.

Mr. Brooks

Consequences of Trust and Betrayal

Earl Brooks Don't worry. If I were here to kill you, you would already be dead. After you left today, I realized that our friendship was a little one-sided. So tomorrow night when we meet, if you'd be so kind as to bring all the pictures and the memory card from your camera. That way we could like each other simply for who we are. If you don't show up, I will presume that you've gone to the police, and I will kill you. Even if I go to jail because of you, Mr. Smith, someone will find you, wherever you are, and they will kill you.

[after breaking into Mr. Smith's apartment]

JFK

Skepticism Towards Official Narratives and Theories

Jim Garrison A single bullet must account for the seven wounds in ] and ]. But rather than admit to a conspiracy or investigate further, the ] chose to endorse the theory put forth by an ambitious junior counselor, ], one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people. We've come to know it as the ].'... That's some bullet. Anyone who's been in combat will tell you never in the history of gunfire has there been a bullet this ridiculous. Yet the government says it can prove it, with some fancy physics in a nuclear laboratory. Of course they can. Theoretical physics can prove that an elephant can hang from a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy. But use your eyes, your common sense.

[[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy; [w:John Connally|Connally; [w:Warren Commission|Warren Commission; [Arlen Specter; [w:Single bullet theory|Magic Bullet Theory]

Field of Dreams

Ray Kinsella's Journey Through Family and Baseball

Ray Kinsella My father's name was John Kinsella. It's an Irish name. He was born in North Dakota in 1896 and never saw a big city until he came back from France in 1918. He settled in Chicago where he quickly learned to live and die with the White Sox. Died a little when they lost the 1919 World Series, died a lot the following summer when 8 members of the team were accused of throwing that series. He played in the minors for a year or two but nothing ever came of it. Moved to Brooklyn in 35, married mom in 38 and was already an old man working at the naval yards when I was born in 1952. My name's Ray Kinsella. Mom died when I was three and I suppose dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night with stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn. But in 58 the Dodgers moved away and we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one away from home I could find. This of course drove him right up the wall which, I suppose, was the point. Officially my major was English but, really, it was the 60s. I marched, I smoked some grass, I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie. The only thing we had in common was that she came from Iowa and I had once heard of Iowa. After graduation we moved to the mid-west and stayed with her family as long as we could; almost a full afternoon. Annie and I got married in June of 74. Dad died that fall. A few years later, Karen was born. She smelled weird but, we loved her anyway. Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

[Ray is seen on the University of California, Berkeley campus]

Swing Vote

Communication Challenges in Everyday Life

Bud Johnson I'll call them back.

Molly Johnson If we had a phone, you could call them back.

Swing Vote

A Question of Voting Intentions

Kate Madison The only question is who you voted for, and are you going to vote the same way?

Bud Johnson Remind me again, uh, who's running?

Field of Dreams

Exploring Selflessness and Personal Motivation

Ray Kinsella I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what's in it for me!

Shoeless Joe Jackson What are you saying, Ray?

Ray Kinsella I'm saying... what's in it for me?

Shoeless Joe Jackson Is that why you did this? For you? I think you better stay here, Ray.

Terence Mann Ray, there was a reason they chose me, just as there was a reason they chose you and this field.

Ray Kinsella Why?

Terence Mann I gave an interview.

Ray Kinsella What interview? What are you talking about?

Terence Mann The one about ]. The one that charged you up and sent you all the way out to Boston to find me.

[[w:Ebbets Field|Ebbets Field]

Ray Kinsella You lied to me.

Terence Mann Well, you were kidnapping me at the time, you big jerk!

Ray Kinsella Well, you lied to me!

Terence Mann You said your finger was a gun!

Ray Kinsella That's a good point.

Terence Mann Ray. Ray. Listen to me, Ray. Listen to me. There is something out there, Ray, and if I have the courage to go through with this, what a story it'll make: "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa".

Mr. Brooks

Addiction to Killing Explained by Earl Brooks

Earl Brooks I don't enjoy killing, Mr. Smith. I do it because I'm addicted to it.

JFK

The Legacy of Political Assassination

Jim Garrison We've all become ]s in our country, children of a slain father-leader whose killers still possess the throne. The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream. He forces on us the appalling questions: Of what is our Constitution made? What are our lives worth? What is the future of a democracy where a President can be assassinated under suspicious circumstances while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles? How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses? How many plane and car crashes will occur before they are exposed for what they are?

[[Hamlet]

Field of Dreams

Respect and Heroes in Baseball

Terence Mann What was the awful thing you said?

Ray Kinsella I said I could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.

Terence Mann Who was his hero?

Ray Kinsella Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Terence Mann You knew he wasn't a criminal. Then why did you say it?

[''Ray nods.'']

Ray Kinsella I was seventeen.

[''Terence nods.'']

Terence Mann So this is your penance.

Ray Kinsella I know. I can't bring my father back...

Terence Mann ...so the least you can do is bring back his hero.

Bull Durham

Natural Disaster Announcement by Crash Davis

Crash Davis Oh my goodness, we've got ourselves a natural disaster!

[Turns on the sprinklers on a ball field]

For Love of the Game

Seeking Comfort in Unconventional Places

Billy Chapel I ain't carryin no books. Where's the pillows?

[while helping a traded teammate, Davis Birch, move]

Wyatt Earp

The Balance of Speed and Precision

Wyatt Earp Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry

Field of Dreams

The Journey of Self-Discovery in Dreams

Ray Kinsella What are you grinning at, you ]?

[[ghost]

Shoeless Joe If you build it -" "- he will come.

[''gestures toward catcher, who is Ray's father, John Kinsella'']

Ray Ease his pain. Go the distance." It was him!

Shoeless Joe No, Ray. It was you.

Hidden Figures

Bathroom Breaks and Workplace Challenges

Al Harrison Where the hell have you been? Everywhere I look you're not where I need you to be, and it's not my imagination. Now, where the hell do you go everyday?

Katherine Johnson The bathroom, sir.

Al Harrison The bathroom. The damn bathroom. For forty minutes a day? What do you do in there? We are T-minus zero here; I put a lot of faith in you.

[With rising anger]

Katherine Johnson There's no bathroom for me here.

Al Harrison What do you mean, "there's no bathroom" for you here?

Katherine Johnson There is no bathroom. There are no colored bathrooms in this building, or any building outside the West Campus, which is half a mile away. Did you know that? I have to walk to Timbuktu just to relieve myself! And I can't use one of the handy bikes. Picture that, Mr. Harrison. My uniform, skirt below the knees and my heels. And simple string of pearls. Well, I don't own pearls. Lord knows you don't pay the colored enough to afford pearls! And I work like a dog day and night, living on coffee from a pot NONE OF YOU WANNA TOUCH! So, excuse me if I have to go to the restroom a few times a day.

Al Harrison There you have it. No more colored restrooms. No more white restrooms. Just plain old toilets. Go wherever you damn want, please. Preferably closer to your desk. Here at NASA... We all pee the same color.

[he throws the crowbar on the floor]

Wyatt Earp

Confronting Threats in an Open Fight

Wyatt Earp I was tired of being threatened by Ike Clanton and his gang. I believed from what they had said to others and to me, and from their movements, that they intended to assassinate me the first chance they had, and I thought if I had to fight for my life against them, I had better make them face me in an open fight.

Bull Durham

Confronting Weakness in Sports Competition

Crash Davis C'mon, Meat. Bring me that weak-ass shit.

[Repeated line]

For Love of the Game

Counting Losses in Life and Sports

Jane Aubrey Do you lose very much?

Billy Chapel I lose. I've lost 134 times.

Jane Aubrey You count them?

Billy Chapel We count everything.

JFK

Questioning the Warren Commission's Findings on Assassination

Jim Garrison This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of one assassin. And once you conclude the magic bullet couldn't create all seven wounds, you must conclude there was a fourth shot and a second rifleman. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition there had to be a conspiracy.

For Love of the Game

Uncertainty in Romantic Relationships

Heather So, are you my mom's boyfriend?

Billy Chapel I'm not sure.

Heather But you've slept with her.

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