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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie

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Runcie, Robert. Speech in London. 6 Dec. 1988, London, England, UK.

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You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

Quoted in The Daily Telegraph

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Walesa, Lech. Quoted in Daily Telegraph. 14 Dec. 1988.

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Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate.

Bull Durham

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Bull Durham. Directed by Ron Shelton, The Mount Company, 1988.

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The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

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Bull Durham. Directed by Ron Shelton, The Mount Company, 1988.

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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Calvin

Quoted in Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 28 Aug. 1988.

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Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. It's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral.

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Bull Durham. Directed by Ron Shelton, The Mount Company, 1988.

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All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing.

The Last Temptation of Christ

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The Last Temptation of Christ. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Universal Pictures/Cineplex Odeon Films/Testament Productions, 1988.

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It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. You don't want them changed.

The Last Temptation of Christ

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The Last Temptation of Christ. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Universal Pictures/Cineplex Odeon Films/Testament Productions, 1988.

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You can flinch, you have fighting spirit!

Bloodsport

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Bloodsport. Directed by Newt Arnold, Cannon Films, 1988.

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I'm all for that. Especially with women. You know, they may not admit it, but they all want a man to…take charge. Tell them what to do.

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority.

Jim Morrison

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Morrison, Jim. The Doors interviewed by Richard Goldstein. PBS Critique Show, 23 May 1969.

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I love anything full contact. I need a few more scars on my face.

Bloodsport

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Bloodsport. Directed by Newt Arnold, Cannon Films, 1988.

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall

Quoted in The Daily Telegraph

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Bacall, Lauren. Quoted in The Daily Telegraph. 2 Mar. 1988.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 13.

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

Roald Dahl

Matilda

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Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Viking Kestrel, 1988.

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I want you to hold onto God's unchanging hand 'cause he helped Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho. Yes. He helped Daniel get out of the lion's den. He helped Gilligan get off the island!

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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You know my name, but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

Die Hard

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Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company/Silver Pictures, 1988.

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If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would know the mind of God.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

On the question of why the universe exists.

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves and the kind of legs you'd like to suck on for a day. She was giving me a look I could feel in my hip pocket.

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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