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Men who wear glasses are so much more gentle, sweet, and helpless.

Some Like it Hot

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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Never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking again.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 29.

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Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra!

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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I never had anyone make me feel as cheap as you did today.

Pretty Woman

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Pretty Woman. Directed by Garry Marshall, Touchstone Pictures, 1990.

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I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

Some Like it Hot

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"I Wanna Be Loved By You." Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?

Rounders

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Hamptons." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Mehlman, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 21, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Nazis. I hate these guys.

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Is it infidelity if you're involved with somebody on email?

You've Got Mail

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You've Got Mail. Directed by Nora Ephron, Lauren Shuler Donner Productions, 1998.

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What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses-like they’re trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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"The Ex-Girlfriend." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones, season 2, episode 1, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1991.