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I'm feeling pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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"The Thong." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Jeff Garlin, season 2, episode 5, Home Box Office, 2001.

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I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying.

Jay-Z

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Beach Chair

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Jay-Z and Chris Martin. "Beach Chair." Kingdom Come. Roc-A-Fella Records/Def Jam Recordings, 2006.

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If an institution is too big to fail, then it is too big to exist.

Bernie Sanders

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On bailouts, in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis.

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Sanders, Bernie. News release. 18 Sept. 2008.

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You play to win the game.

Herm Edwards

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Edwards, Herm. Spoken during New York Jets press conference. 30 Oct. 2002, Hempstead, NY, USA.

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She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001.

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Men have nice cars. Not cause they like nice cars. Because they know women like nice cars. That’s how it goes. Cause men are hunters. And the car is the bait. And a woman comes up and says: “Ooh, nice Porsche.” “Gotcha, bitch!”

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted-anything!-the Ten have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women-or anyone-as chattel or inferior beings.

Katha Pollitt

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Stacked Decalogue

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Pollitt, Katha. "Stacked Decalogue." The Nation, 4 Sept. 2003.

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Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type?

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"The Strong, Silent Type." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter and Robin Green, directed by Alan Taylor, season 4, episode 10, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.

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You get a car! You get a car! You get a car!

Oprah Winfrey

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"Oprah's 20th Anniversary Season Premiere." Hosted by Oprah Winfrey. The Oprah Winfrey Show. King World Productions, 13 Sept. 2004.

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You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Warren Buffet

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Buffett, Warren. Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders. 2001.

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Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

Eminem

Lose Yourself

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"Lose Yourself." 8 Mile. Directed by Curtis Hanson, performed by Eminem, Universal Pictures, 2002.

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Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me.

Gran Torino

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Gran Torino. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Double Nickel Entertainment/Malpaso Productions/Village Roadshow Pictures, 2008.

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I wish I knew how to quit you.

Brokeback Mountain

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Brokeback Mountain. Directed by Ang Lee, River Road Entertainment, 2005.

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And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.

Michael Scott

The Office

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"Stress Relief." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Paul Lieberstein and Ricky Gervais, directed by Jeffrey Blitz, season 5, episode 13, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2009.

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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

George W. Bush

Responding to a person at ground zero on 9/11 yelling, "I can't hear you!"

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Bush, George W. Remarks at World Trade Center site. 14 Sept. 2001, New York City, NY, USA.

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men

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McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 9.

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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

John Roberts

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Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1

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Roberts, John. United States, Supreme Court. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. United States Reports, vol. 551, 28 June 2007, pp. 701-876, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/551/701/.

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