Life or Something Like It (2002) - Quotes

Facing a Week of Life's Uncertainties

Taglines: What if you only had seven days to live.

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Creating Your Own Destiny

Taglines: Destiny is what you make of it.

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A Declaration of Lasting Love

Pete Scanlon: Look. I don't want the opportunity to pass me by again. So I should have told you this a long time ago. But I've loved you since the first day I met you.

Lanie Kerrigan: Define love.

Pete Scanlon: Lanie. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

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Misunderstanding in a Conversation

Deborah Connors: You... go.

Lanie Kerrigan: You mean like "you go girl

Deborah Connors: No, just go.

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Debating Fate and Predictions in Life

Pete Scanlon: You are full of shit. She is not gonna die. Because she did get the job. The network job you said she wasn't gonna get. Which means you were wrong.

Prophet Jack: Was I?

Pete Scanlon: What is that supposed to mean?

Prophet Jack: If she dies tomorrow, she doesn't get the job. And I was right.

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Defining Life Beyond Career and Relationships

Lanie Kerrigan: My life is over. I'm officially dead. Just stopped breathing. I'm dead.

Pete Scanlon: Define life.

Lanie Kerrighan: My career. My network job. My wedding. Ok?

Pete Scanlon: Do you really think if you have no job and no boyfriend then your life is over?

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A Moment to Reconsider a Breakup

Cal Cooper: Is this your breaking up with me? Well, take a minute. Will you reconsider about it?

Lanie Kerrigan: A minute just seems like a really long time to waste.

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Conflicting Emotions in Relationships

Lanie Kerrigan: I'm marrying Cal. I know this is hard for you to accept.

Pete Scanlon: Well. Listen Lanie. You are the single most delusional, most self-absorbed, self-involved, egomaniac woman that I've ever met.

Lanie Kerrigan: Hmm... Umm... Let's have sex.

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Cherishing Moments with Limited Time

Lanie Kerrigan: What would you do if you only had a week to live.

Pete Scanlon: I would try to live every moment and I would go to all the people that mean most to me, and I would try to memorize their faces.

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Misunderstandings in a Moment of Calm

Pete Scanlon: Take a deep breath.

Pete Scanlon: Feel better? Take one more.

Lanie Kerrigan: [breathing] Oh my God. You are trying to have sex with me.

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Misunderstanding Between Vision and ESP

Lanie Kerrigan: I met a homeless guy and he had a vision.

Cal Cooper: What like ESPN?

Lanie Kerrigan: No, he had ESP. There's no N, honey.

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A Humorous Exchange About Predictions and Reality

Prophet Jack: Watch your step on your way out.

Lanie Kerrigan: Saw that in a vision, did you?

Prophet Jack: No, I trip in that crack all the time.

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A Revelation of Mortality and Consequences

Prophet Jack: And next Thursday. You're going to die. I'm sorry.

Prophet Jack: I didn't ask for the power.

Lanie Kerrigan: [to Pete] If I find out you were up to this, I will never speak to you as long as I live.

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Defining Perfection in Life

Lanie Kerrigan: You don't bother me. You can't. Because no matter how you would like to define it, I can honestly say, at this point, my life is perfect.

Pete Scanlon: Define perfection.

Personal Brands and Their Quirky Significance

Pete Scanlon: Do you have another cameraman who can make look like a natural blonde?

Lanie Kerrigan: I'm not just a reporter. I'm a TV personality. My hair is my trademark. Just like the "I don't like to shower" look is your trademark.

The Complexity of Defining Happiness

Lanie Kerrigan: Well, I hope you're happy.

Pete Scanlon: Define happiness.

Lanie Kerrigan: Your death.

Navigating Professional Boundaries in Collaboration

Lanie Kerrigan: Under the circumstances, I think it would be best if we kept things on a purely professional level.

Pete Scanlon: Define "the circumstances".

Lanie Kerrigan: We have to work together. We don't have to like it.

The Value of Words and Pictures

Pete Scanlon: Did you ever hear the saying "A picture holds a thousand words.

Lanie Kerrigan: That's only for people like you who don't know a thousand words.

Pete Scanlon: I know two, and the first one begins with an "F".

Timing and Cheese in Conversation

Andrea: You're late.

Lanie Kerrigan: I'm not late. You're early.

Andrea: I ate cheese.

Embracing Life's Impermanence Through Conversation

Lanie Kerrigan: Someone once said, "Live everyday as if it were you last, cause one of these, it's gonna be the last." Jack was right, a part of me did die that day, the part of me that didn't know how to live. What the future holds, Jack knows. But when I talk to him, I make sure we only talk about sports and weather.