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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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Quoted in Salon

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

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Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

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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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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.

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

Inglourious Basterds

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

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

Susan Sontag

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

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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

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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

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

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

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

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

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Science is whatever we want it to be.

30 Rock

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"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.

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