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Food and sex. Those are my two passions.

George Costanza

Seinfeld

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"The Blood." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Dan O'Keefe, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 9, episode 4, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1997.

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College women can smell ignorance...like dog shit.

Risky Business

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Risky Business. Directed by Paul Brickman, The Geffen Film Company, 1983.

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Beautiful and Damned." Metropolitan Magazine, Sept. 1921 - March 1922.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. Cambridge University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.

Mitch Hedberg

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Apollo 13

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Apollo 13. Directed by Ron Howard. Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment, 1995.

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When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.

Forrest Gump

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

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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

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Zedong, Mao. "On Protracted Warfare." Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. 26 May - 3 June 1938, Yenan, China. Lecture series.

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Lesson number two: don't get high on your own supply.

Scarface

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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To tell you the truth, I lied a little.

Chinatown

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Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

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You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to—Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Roman Holiday

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Roman Holiday. Directed by William Wyler, Paramount Pictures, 1953.

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If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Predator

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Predator. Directed by John McTiernan, 20th Century Fox/Lawrence Gordon Productions/Silver Pictures/Davis Entertainment/American Films/American Entertainment Partners L. P., 1987.

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