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Ever put your life in another man's hands, asked him to put his life in yours?

Col. Nathan R. Jessep

A Few Good Men

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A Few Good Men. Directed by Rob Reiner, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

Ronin

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Ronin. Directed by John Frankenheimer, United Artists/FGM Entertainment, 1998.

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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The world was ours. We could do everything or nothing. All it had to be was anything 'cause it was always us.

Hook

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Hook. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1991.

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You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!"

Tony Montana

Scarface

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

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.

Eliza Doolittle

My Fair Lady

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My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cukor. Warner Bros., 1964.

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Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what up!

Nino Brown

New Jack City

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New Jack City. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, The Jackson/McHenry Company/Jacmac Films, 1991.

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 7.

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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

George Orwell

Animal Farm

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Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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Talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things.

Easy Rider

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Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.

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Allow myself to introduce...myself.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Directed by Jay Roach, New Line Productions/Capella International/Moving Pictures/Eric's Boy/KC Medien, 1997.

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You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump

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

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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Elia Kazan. Warner Bros., 1951.

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You can be my wingman anytime.

Top Gun

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.

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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What if this is as good as it gets?

As Good As It Gets

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As Good As It Gets. Directed by James L. Brooks, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films, 1997.

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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four?

The Beatles

When I'm Sixty Four

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "When I'm Sixty Four." Performed by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Parlophone Records/Capitol Records, 1967.

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You don't fool with a man's family. This is my son, not yours.

A Bronx Tale

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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