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We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Topic

Effects of time

Author

Hilary Mantel

Source

Bring Up the Bodies

Medium

Novel

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Parents and children Parenting Human diversity Heritage

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 146.

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

Heard by a telephone operator on September 11, 2001 on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 as Todd Beamer and other passengers planned to storm the cockpit. Minutes later, the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

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Topic

September 11th

Speaker

Todd Beamer

Statement Type

Last words

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Beamer, Todd. Quoted in "A Sky Filled with Chaos, Uncertainty and True Heroism." Written by Charles Lane, Don Phillips, and David Snyder. The Washington Post, 17 Sept. 2001. Originally overheard by a telephone operator. United Airlines Flight 93, 11 Sept. 2001.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

Inglourious Basterds

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Topic

Facts Rumors Truth vs. fiction

Speaker

Col. Hans Landa

Actor

Christoph Waltz

Source

Inglourious Basterds

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inglourious Basterds. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Studio Babelsberg/Visiona Romantica, 2009.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Susan Sontag

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Topic

Photography Stories

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

Regarding the Pain of Others

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, ch. 5.

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly...stupid.

Jack Sparrow

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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Topic

Dishonesty

Speaker

Jack Sparrow

Actor

Johnny Depp

Source

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Medium

Film

Genre

Adventure (film) Fantasy (film) Adventure Fantasy

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Directed by Gore Verbinski, Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2003.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday.

The Notebook

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Topic

Working on relationships Commitment

Speaker

Noah

Actor

Ryan Gosling

Source

The Notebook

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas.

Skyfall

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Topic

Shooting people

Speaker

Q

Actor

Ben Whishaw

Source

Skyfall

Medium

Film

Genre

Spy (film) Action (film) Spy Action

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Skyfall. Directed by Sam Mendes, Eon Productions/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Columbia Pictures, 2012.

I've been nothin' but myself since the day I was born, and if you can't see that it's your failin', not mine.

Big Fish

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Topic

Being oneself

Speaker

Edward Bloom (Senior)

Actor

Albert Finney

Source

Big Fish

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

People come up to me all the time and say "you should be a model," or, "you look just like a model," or "maybe you should try to be a man who models." And I always have to laugh because I'm so good looking. Of course I'm a model.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Topic

Modeling

Speaker

Derek Zoolander

Actor

Ben Stiller

Source

Zoolander

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest and like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost...to forget where you came in.

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Topic

Revenge

Speaker

Hattori Hanzo

Actor

Shin'ichi Chiba

Source

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Medium

Film

Genre

Martial arts (film) Action (film) Martial arts Action

Language

Japanese

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

Science is whatever we want it to be.

30 Rock

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Topic

Nature of science Science

Speaker

Dr. Spaceman

Actor

Chris Parnell

Source

30 Rock

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Fireworks." 30 Rock, written by Tina Fey and Dave Finkel, directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, season 1, episode 18, Broadway Video and Little Stranger, 2007.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him...and in that way he becomes immortal.

Big Fish

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Topic

Stories

Speaker

Will Bloom

Actor

Billy Crudup

Source

Big Fish

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

Love, it's a motherfucker, huh?

Old School

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Topic

Dangers of love Love

Speaker

Waiter

Actor

Bryan Callen

Source

Old School

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Old School. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Montecito Picture Company, 2003.

None of you Americans smoke anymore. You all live long, dull, and uninteresting lives.

Black Hawk Down

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Topic

Americans Smoking

Speaker

Firimbi

Actor

Treva Etienne

Source

Black Hawk Down

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

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Topic

Memory

Author

Joan Didion

Source

Blue Nights

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.

A Beautiful Mind

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Topic

Love and reason Reason and emotion

Speaker

John Nash

Actor

Russell Crowe

Source

A Beautiful Mind

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Drama (film) Biography Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Beautiful Mind. Directed by Ron Howard, Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Imagine Entertainment, 2001.

You're like an injured young fawn who's been nursed back to health and is finally going to be rereleased into the wilderness.

Old School

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Topic

Getting back out there

Speaker

Beanie

Actor

Vince Vaughn

Source

Old School

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Old School. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Montecito Picture Company, 2003.

Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Topic

Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

The fundamentals of our economy are strong.

John McCain

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Topic

2008 Financial Crisis

Speaker

John McCain

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McCain, John. Spoken during campaign trail in Jacksonville, FL. 15 Sept. 2008, Jacksonville, FL, USA.