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We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us!

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Trenchtown Rock

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Marley, Bob. Trenchtown Rock. Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Tuff Gong, 1971.

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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!

Eliza Doolittle

My Fair Lady

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"The Rain in Spain." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cukor, performed by Marni Nixon, Audrey Hepburn, et al., Warner Bros., 1964.

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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

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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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

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Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.

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There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Princess Diana. "An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales." Panorama. Interviewed by Martin Bashir. BBC1 TV, 20 Nov. 1995.

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I'm a dying man, scared of the dark.

The Shootist

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The Shootist. Directed by Don Siegel, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica/Dino de Laurentiis Company, 1976.

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Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 2.

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Die Hard

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Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company/Silver Pictures, 1988.

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Everybody talking 'bout gun control, gotta get rid of the guns. Fuck that, I like guns. You got a gun, you don’t have to work out.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.

Mel Brooks

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The Producers. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1967.

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"Acceptance" is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to his son Eduard." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to his Son Eduard, 5 Feb. 1930.

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Make no mistake—It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckonin'.

Doc Holliday

Tombstone

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Tombstone. Directed by George P. Cosmatos, Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures, 1993.

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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.

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Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only.

Glengarry Glen Ross

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Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

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

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Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing. Directed by Emile Ardolino, Great American Films Limited Partnership, 1987.

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When you grow up, your heart dies.

The Breakfast Club

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The Breakfast Club. Directed by John Hughes, A&M Films/Channel Productions, 1985.

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