Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

Dead Poets Society

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Topic

Carpe diem Living life to the fullest

Speaker

John Keating

Actor

Robin Williams

Source

Dead Poets Society

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen (film) Drama (film) Teen Drama

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.

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

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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Citation

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

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

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Actor
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Another quote of the following type Advice

Weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath.

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Othello

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Othello
Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Othello. King's Men, 1 Nov. 1604, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Othello." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 3.