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Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.

Inside Out

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Inside Out. Directed by Pete Docter, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2015.

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I have been trying to get on jury duty every year since I was 18 years old. To get to go sit it in an air-conditioned room, downtown, judging people, while my lunch is paid for... That is the life.

Stanley Hudson

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The Office

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"Classy Christmas." The Office, written Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling and Ricky Gervais, directed by Rainn Wilson, season 7, episode 11, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2010.

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We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

George W. Bush

Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush

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Bush, George W. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2005, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid. It does things to ya.

Finding Nemo

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Finding Nemo. Directed by Andrew Stanton, Pixar Animation Studios/ Walt Disney Pictures, 2003.

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Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive.

Gladiator

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis.

Up in the Air

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury, Ray. Quoted in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schultz. Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

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Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry, Anonymous Content/This Is That, 2004.

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Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity.

Dorothea Tanning

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Tanning, Dorothea. Interviewed by John Glassing. Salon, 11 Feb. 2002, https://www.salon.com/2002/02/11/tanning/.

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We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.

Don Draper

Mad Men

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"The Summer Man." Mad Men, written by Matthew Weiner and Lisa Albert and Janet Leahy, directed by Phil Abraham, season 4, episode 8, Lionsgate Television and American Movie Classics and Weiner Bros., 2010.

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You think that tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.

Life of Pi

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Life of Pi. Directed by Ang Lee, Haishang Films/Dune Entertainment/Gil Netter, 2012.

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We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.

Interstellar

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Interstellar. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Legendary Pictures/Syncopy/Lynda Obst Productions, 2014.

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Music, you know, true music, not just rock n roll, it chooses you.

Almost Famous

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Almost Famous. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Columbia Pictures/ DreamWorks Pictures/Vinyl Films, 2000.

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Let frustration fuel inspiration.

Sonia Boyce

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Boyce, Sonia. Interviewed by John Elmes. Times Higher Education, 17 Dec. 2015.

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I wish I had stayed, too. Now I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry, Anonymous Content/This Is That, 2004.

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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.

Barack Obama

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2009, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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All experience is great providing you live through it.

Alice Neel

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Neel, Alice. Alice Neel: Black and White. c. 1984.

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Don't be afraid to just sit and watch.

Anthony Bourdain

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Bourdain, Anthony. "All the Things You're Doing Wrong When You Travel, According to Anthony Bourdain." Interviewed by Megan Leonhardt. Money.com, 12 Mar. 2018, money.com/anthony-bourdain-advice-great-travel/.

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When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

The Departed

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The Departed. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Media Asia Entertainment Group, Vertigo Films, GK Films, and Media Asia Films, 2006.

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