1996

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Show me the money!

Jerry Maguire

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Topic

Asking for a raise Money

Speaker

Rod Tidwell

Actor

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Source

Jerry Maguire

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy Comedy drama

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.

I love you. You...complete me.

Jerry Maguire

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Topic

Being in love Love

Speaker

Jerry Maguire

Actor

Tom Cruise

Source

Jerry Maguire

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy Comedy drama

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.

Help me, help you. Help me, help you.

Jerry Maguire

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Topic

Helping others

Speaker

Jerry Maguire

Actor

Tom Cruise

Source

Jerry Maguire

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.

You had me at hello.

Jerry Maguire

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Topic

Hopelessly in love Being in love

Speaker

Dorothy Boyd

Actor

Renée Zellweger

Source

Jerry Maguire

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy Comedy drama

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

The Rock

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Topic

Winners and losers Winners Losers

Speaker

John Patrick Mason

Actor

Sean Connery

Source

The Rock

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Thriller (film) Action Thriller

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Rock. Directed by Michael Bay, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1996.

You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know.

The Rock

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Topic

Insiders and outsiders Knowledge

Speaker

Stanley Goodspeed

Actor

Nicolas Cage

Source

The Rock

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Thriller (film) Action Thriller

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Rock. Directed by Michael Bay, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1996.

Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her!

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Topic

Prenuptial agreements Divorce Marriage

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

Francis Bacon (Irish painter)

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Topic

Friends

Speaker

Francis Bacon (Irish painter)

Source

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

Statement Type

Shout out

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

English drinking toast saying. c. 1500.

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Trainspotting

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Topic

Middle class respectability Heroin Drugs Modern life

Speaker

Mark Renton

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Source

Trainspotting

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trainspotting. Directed by Danny Boyle, Channel Four Films/Figment Films/Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, 1996.

The era of big government is over.

Bill Clinton

1996 State of the Union Address

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Topic

Role of government American politics

Speaker

Bill Clinton

Source

1996 State of the Union Address Presidential State of the Union address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clinton, Bill. "State of the Union Address." Joint session of the United States Congress. 23 Jan. 1996, United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic

The painful truth Truth

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender.

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women Relationships

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

We got some platonic friends. I got some, but they're all by accident. Every platonic friend I got is some woman I was tryin' to fuck, I made a wrong turn somewhere, and ended up in the friend zone.

Chris Rock

Chris Rock: Bring the Pain

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Topic

Friendship between men and women

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Chris Rock: Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

Drug dealers don't sell drugs. Drugs sell themselves. It's crack. It's not an encyclopedia. It's not a fuckin' vacuum cleaner. You don't really gotta try to sell crack, ok? I never heard a crack dealer goin' "Man, how'm I gonna get rid of all this crack?!"

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Topic

Selling drugs Drugs

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them.

Charles J. Sykes

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Topic

Nerds

Author

Charles J. Sykes

Source

San Diego Union-Tribune

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Sykes, Charles J. San Diego Union-Tribune. 19 Sept. 1996.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Jonathan Franzen

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Topic

The human condition Desire

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1996.

Current Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Why Bother?" How to Be Alone. Picador, 2002.

"Acceptance" is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic

Acceptance Resignation

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

You know what's wild? Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence. Now what's Martin Luther King? A street. And I don't give a fuck where you at in America—if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence goin' down!

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Topic

Inner city issues

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

You could get rid of all the crack, all the herb, all the blow, you know what would happen? People would just think of new ways of getting high. That's right, guys would go in their basement and become scientists, like "Yo check this out, check this out. You know, if you get a baby's bottle, right, fill it up with a little gasoline and a dead lima bean and suck it, you'll be fucked up!"

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Topic

Drugs

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

Rebecca Wells

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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Topic

Vulnerability

Author

Rebecca Wells

Source

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wells, Rebecca. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. HarperCollins, 1996, ch. 31.