Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

The Godfather: Part II

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Topic

Friends and enemies Friends Enemies

Speaker

Michael Corleone

Actor

Al Pacino

Source

The Godfather: Part II

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Epic (film) Crime Epic

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

The Godfather Part II. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures Studios/American Zoetrope/Coppola Company, 1974.

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Another quote from the 1970s

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish

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Topic
Outsiders and outcasts

Author

Michel Foucault
Source
Discipline and Punish
Language
French
Time
1975 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

Another quote about Friends

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Stand By Me

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Childhood friends Friendship Friends
Speaker
The Writer
Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
Source
Stand By Me
Medium
Film
Genre
Coming of age (film) Coming of age
Language
English
Time
1986 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

Another quote of the following type Advice

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Topic
Being true to oneself Authenticity Personal integrity
Speaker
Lord Polonius

Author

William Shakespeare
Source
Hamlet
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1616 1610s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.