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A cultural Chernobyl.

Ariane Mnouchkine

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On Euro Disney.

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Mnouchikine, Ariane. Quoted in "Apres Mickey, Le Deluge." Written by Jean Cau. Harper's Magazine, July 1992.

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You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

Independence Day

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Independence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Centropolis Entertainment, 1996.

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Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

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The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us!

Magnolia

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew you've got to be one hundred percent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and a crew. It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

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Graham, Martha. Blood Memory: An Autobiography. Doubleday, 1991.

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Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought justice came into being automatically. That virtue was its own reward. That good would triumph over evil. But as we get older, we know this just isn't true. Individual human beings have to create justice, and this is not easy because the truth often poses a threat to power and one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves.

JFK

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JFK. Directed by Oliver Stone, Le Studio Canal+/Regency Enterprises/Alcor Films/Ixtlan Corporation, 1991.

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The mind is like a muscle, okay, and if you want it to be really powerful, you got to work it out. Ok? Each new fact gives you another choice. Each new idea builds another muscle, okay, and it’s those muscles that are going to make you really strong. Those are your weapons and in this unsafe world, I want to arm you...Look, okay, if at the end of the term, you’re not faster, stronger, and smarter, you will have lost nothing. But if you are, you’ll be that much tougher to knock down.

Dangerous Minds

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Dangerous Minds. Directed by John N. Smith, Hollywood Pictures, 1995.

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury, Ray. "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat of 'Fahrenheit 451.'" Interviewed by Misha Berson. The New York Times, 12 Mar. 1993.

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Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.

The Thin Red Line

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The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

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It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

My Best Friend's Wedding

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My Best Friend's Wedding. Directed by P. J. Hogan, TriStar Pictures/Zucker Brothers Productions, 1997.

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Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

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1996 Wellesley commencement address

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Read this speech at wellesley.edu

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Ephron, Nora. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 25 May 1996, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

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She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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

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Only the paranoid survive.

Andrew Grove

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Grove, Andrew. Quoted in "Ideas & Trends; The Chip on Intel's Shoulder." Written by John Markoff. The New York Times, 18 Dec. 1994, sec. 4, p. 6.

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Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Well, how you think the crack rock gets into the country? We don't own any planes. We don't own no ships. We are not the people who are flyin' and floatin' that shit in here.

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Boyz n the Hood

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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

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I'd say in a given week, I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

Office Space

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you?