1996

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Personality, I mean, that's what counts, right? Personality, that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin's got great fucking personality!

Trainspotting

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Topic

Relationships Heroin Drugs

Speaker

Sick Boy

Actor

Jonny Lee Miller

Source

Trainspotting

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic

Libraries

Speaker

Hal Incandenza

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

As long as you live you ain't never gonna see no black vice president. Not while the president's white! Oh no, you will never see. Do you know what they say, “never say never”? I'm saying never! Never see no black vice president. Not while there’s a white president, and you know why? ‘Cause some black guy would just kill the president, that’s why! Shit, I’d do it!

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Vice Presidency American politics

Speaker

Chris Rock

Source

Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

We got so much food in America we allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit! You think anybody in Rwanda's got a fuckin' lactose intolerance?

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Food

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 don't think we need to do the thing where we tell each other everything.

Jerry Maguire

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Fear of intimacy Intimacy Oversharing

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

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Citation

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

I'm sorry, I'm just a little pregnant right now.

Jerry Maguire

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Topic

Pregnancy

Speaker

Marcee Tidwell

Actor

Regina King

Source

Jerry Maguire

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah!

Muhammad Ali

When We Were Kings

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Race relations Black identity Africa

Speaker

Muhammad Ali

Source

When We Were Kings

Medium

Film

Genre

Documentary (film) Sports (film) Sports

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast, Polygram/Image Entertainment Inc./Gramercy Pictures, 1996.

I can’t be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It’s too much. It’s too much Kramer, I can’t take it. I can’t take it.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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Opposites attract Relationship challenges Relationships

Speaker

Jerry Seinfeld

Actor

Jerry Seinfeld

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Invitations." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 22, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1996.

Look, I got a few good years left. If I want a Chip Ahoy, I’m having it.

Morty Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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Topic

Food Retirement

Speaker

Morty Seinfeld

Actor

Barney Martin

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

"The Cadillac." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 14, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1996.

And I'm not sayin' he shoulda killed her…but I understand.

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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OJ Simpson Trial

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.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way.

Steve Jobs

Triumph of the Nerds

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Topic

Microsoft Taste

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Source

Triumph of the Nerds

Medium

Interview Film

Genre

Documentary (film)

Statement Type

Talking shit

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Triumph of the Nerds. Directed by Paul Sen, narrated by Robert X. Cringely, Johnb Gau Productions for Channel 4 and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Channel 4/PBS, 14 Apr. 1996.

Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

John Updike

Quoted in The New York Review of Books

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Topic

American character America

Speaker

John Updike

Source

The New York Review of Books

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

Independence Day

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Topic

Government spending

Speaker

Julius Levinson

Actor

Judd Hirsch

Source

Independence Day

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Independence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Centropolis Entertainment, 1996.

Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

1996 Wellesley commencement address

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Agency

Author

Nora Ephron

Source

1996 Wellesley commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ephron, Nora. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 25 May 1996, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic

Destiny

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The First Wives Club

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Hollywood Patriarchy

Speaker

Elise Elliot Atchison

Actor

Goldie Hawn

Source

The First Wives Club

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The First Wives Club. Directed by Hugh Wilson, Paramount Pictures, 1996.

I'm smart, you're dumb, I'm big, you're little, I'm right, you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Matilda

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Topic

Might makes right

Speaker

Harry Wormwood

Actor

Danny DeVito

Source

Matilda

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Era

These lines do not appear in the book, and it was produced in 1996, after his death in 1990. I left the year as 1996. -AAM

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Citation

Matilda. Directed by Danny DeVito. Based on Matilda by Roald Dahl. TriStar Pictures/Jersey Films, 1996.

You see if you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality.

Trainspotting

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Topic

Sexuality

Speaker

Mark Renton

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Source

Trainspotting

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

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Evidence

Author

Carl Sagan

Source

Four Cosmic Questions Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Sagan, Carl. "Four Cosmic Questions." Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium. Random House, 1997, ch. 5.

Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not.

Wendell Berry

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Love as action Nature of love Love

Speaker

Wendell Berry

Source

The Kentucky Review

Medium

Interview Academic journal

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berry, Wendell. Quoted in "Interview with Wendell Berry." Interviewed by Vince Pennington. The Kentucky Review, Spring 1996.