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It's classified. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya.

Top Gun

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash.

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Stand By Me

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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You gotta fight
For your right
To party.

Beastie Boys

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Fight For Your Right

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Rubin, Rick and Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz. "Fight for Your Right." Performed by Beastie Boys. Licensed to Ill. Def Jam Recordings/Columbia Records, 1986.

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Back then, government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Remarks to state chairs in Washington, DC. National White House Conference on Small Business. 15 Aug. 1986, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

Gary Shilling

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Shilling, Gary. Quoted in The Advertiser. 1986.

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I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

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Lauren, Ralph. Quoted in "New Fashion Ads: The Provocative Sells." Written by Michael Gross. The New York Times, 19 Apr. 1986.

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

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James, P. D. Quoted in Face Magazine. Dec. 1986.

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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

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Janowitz, Tama. "Modern Saint #271." Slaves of New York. Simon and Schuster/Crown Publishers, 1986.

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Take me to bed, or lose me forever.

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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You can be my wingman anytime.

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Top Gun. Directed by Tony Scott, Paramount Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1986.

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Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell.

Platoon

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Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone, Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 11.

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I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us.

Platoon

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Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone, Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.

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No, we will not die like dogs, we will fight like lions because we are the three amigos!

Three Amigos!

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?

Ferris Bueller

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Press conference in Chicago. Press conference. 12 Aug. 1986, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL, USA.

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