1990s

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I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do.

Elijah Muhammad

Malcolm X

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Topic

Nothing to lose Changing the world

Speaker

Elijah Muhammad

Actor

Al Freeman Jr.

Source

Malcolm X

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Drama (film) Biography Drama

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Barbara Bush

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Topic

American Presidency

Speaker

Barbara Bush

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Political joke Joke

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bush, Barbara. Remarks at Wellesley College commencement. Commencement ceremony. 1 June 1990. Wellesley, MA, USA.

Hey, guys, one more thing, hey, this summer, when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.

Dazed and Confused

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Topic

American founding America

Speaker

Ms. Stroud

Actor

Kim Krizan

Source

Dazed and Confused

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (film) Coming of age Comedy

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

Middle Passage

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Topic

Dangers of women Ocean and sea

Author

Charles R. Johnson

Source

Middle Passage

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Johnson, Charles R. Middle Passage. Atheneum Publishers, 1990.

We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Liberation

Speaker

Harry Hay

Source

The Progressive

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

I especially hate turtlenecks. Like wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day.

Mitch Hedberg

Comedy Central Presents

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Topic

Clothing

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Comedy Central Presents

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

I've always sensed that language is the great liberator. The fitting phrase, the precise word-these permit us to be more nearly ourselves.

Carol Shields

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Topic

Power of words Language

Speaker

Carol Shields

Source

Larry's Party

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Shields, Carol. "An Interview with Carol Shields from Penguin.com," author's website, n.d., http://www.carol-shields.com/larryspartyinterview.pdf.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Robert Shapiro

On the O.J. Simpson defense team's strategy.

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Topic

OJ Simpson Trial

Speaker

Robert Shapiro

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shapiro, Robert. Interviewed by Barbara Walters. ABC News, 3. Oct. 1995.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart

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Topic

Loneliness Isolation The human condition

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Sputnik Sweetheart

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

Japanese

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. スプートニクの恋人 [Sputnik Sweetheart]. Kodansha, 1999.

This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other.

Gettysburg

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Topic

American Civil War Equality The military

Speaker

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Actor

Jeff Daniels

Source

Gettysburg

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) Epic (film) War Epic

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gettysburg. Directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, Turner Pictures/TriStar Television/Esparza/Katz Productions, 1993.

Love is never simple. Not for fathers and sons. We spend our lives full of hope and expectations. And most of the time we are bound to fail. But that afternoon as I watched my father sheltering his son against a future that was so unsure, all I knew was they didn’t want to let each other down anymore.

The Wonder Years

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Topic

Fathers and sons Family love

Speaker

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

Actor

Daniel Stern

Source

The Wonder Years

Medium

TV program

Genre

Coming of age (TV) Comedy (TV) Coming of age Comedy

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Private Butthead." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Sy Rosen, directed by Nick Marck, season 5, episode 14, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1992.

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, um, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.

Office Space

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Topic

Alienating work Work

Speaker

Peter Gibbons

Actor

Ron Livingston

Source

Office Space

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

Tracy, you're a very intelligent girl. You have a lot of admirable qualities. But one day maybe you'll learn that being smart and doing whatever you need to do to get ahead, and yet stepping on other people to get there... Well, there's a whole lot more to life than that, and in the end, you're only cheating yourself.

Election

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Topic

Ruthlessness

Speaker

Jim McAllister

Actor

Matthew Broderick

Source

Election

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy Drama (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Election. Directed by Alexander Payne. MTV Productions and Bona Fide Productions, 1999.

Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain.

Alan Watts

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Topic

Resistance to change Change Acceptance

Author

Alan Watts

Source

Become What You Are

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures

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Topic

Lost youth Youth vs. old age Old age

Author

Terry Pratchett

Source

Moving Pictures

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. Victor Gollancz, 1990.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

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Topic

Politics

Speaker

Michael Kinsley

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Kinsley, Michael. The Guardian. 14 Jan. 1992.

God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.

Elie Wiesel

Quoted in The Times of London

Spoken at Auschwitz.

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Topic

The Holocaust Forgiveness

Speaker

Elie Wiesel

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Wiesel, Elie. The Times. 27 Jan. 1995.

How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.

Home Alone

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Topic

Family

Speaker

Marley

Actor

Roberts Blossom

Source

Home Alone

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Comedy (film) Christmas Comedy

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

Affirmative action really isn't about preferential treatment for blacks, but about removing preferential treatment whites have received through history.

Julian Bond

Speech at 89th NAACP Annual Convention, July 12, 1998

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Topic

Affirmative action

Speaker

Julian Bond

Source

Speech at 89th NAACP Annual Convention, July 12, 1998

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bond, Julian. Speech at the NAACP annual convention. 89th NAACP Annual Convention. 12 July 1998, Atlanta, GA, USA.

I know what you’re thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue pill?

The Matrix

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Topic

Ignorance is bliss

Speaker

Cypher

Actor

Joe Pantoliano

Source

The Matrix

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.