1998

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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs

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Product design Business strategy Customers

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.

Smokey, my friend, you're entering a world of pain.

The Big Lebowski

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Speaker

Walter Sobchak

Actor

John Goodman

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

The Big Lebowski

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Topic

Interior design

Speaker

Walter Sobchak

Actor

John Goodman

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

People forget the brain is the biggest erogenous zone.

The Big Lebowski

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Topic

Turn-ons

Speaker

Jackie Treehorn

Actor

Ben Gazzara

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!

The Big Lebowski

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Rules Rule of law

Speaker

Walter Sobchak

Actor

John Goodman

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past-not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Desmond Tutu

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Moving forward Letting go of the past The past

Author

Desmond Tutu

Source

Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Tutu, Desmond. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Vol. 1, The Commission, 1998, foreword.

Guns for show, knives for a pro.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

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Guns Knives Weapons

Speaker

Soap

Actor

Dexter Fletcher

Source

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Crime comedy

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Directed by Guy Ritchie, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/HandMade Films/SKA Films/The Steve Tisch Company/Summit Entertainment, 1998.

When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

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Taking risks

Speaker

Barry The Baptist

Actor

Lenny McLean

Source

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Crime comedy

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Directed by Guy Ritchie, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/HandMade Films/SKA Films/The Steve Tisch Company/Summit Entertainment, 1998.

Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

The Big Lebowski

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Nihilism Naziism Political ideology

Speaker

Walter Sobchak

Actor

John Goodman

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Armageddon

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Topic

End of the world The world End times

Source

Armageddon

Medium

Film

Genre

Disaster (film) Science fiction (film) Disaster Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Armageddon. Directed by Michael Bay, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Valhalla Motion Pictures, 1998.

We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

The Truman Show

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Nature of reality

Speaker

Christof

Actor

Ed Harris

Source

The Truman Show

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) Comedy drama (film) Psychological drama Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Truman Show. Directed by Peter Weir, Scott Rudin Productions, 1998.

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

American History X

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Hate Racism

Speaker

Danny

Actor

Edward Furlong

Source

American History X

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Drama (film) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye, New Line Cinemas/The Turman-Morrissey Company, 1998.

When making a business decision, the only color that matters, Jesus, is green.

He Got Game

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Topic

Money

Speaker

Dom Pagnotti

Actor

Al Palagonia

Source

He Got Game

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Drama (film) Sports Drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

He Got Game. Directed by Spike Lee, Touchstone Pictures/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1998.

I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it.

The Thin Red Line

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Dying Facing death Death

Speaker

Private Witt

Actor

Jim Caviezel

Source

The Thin Red Line

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) War (film) Epic War

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Liberation

Speaker

Harry Hay

Source

The Progressive

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

Affirmative action really isn't about preferential treatment for blacks, but about removing preferential treatment whites have received through history.

Julian Bond

Speech at 89th NAACP Annual Convention, July 12, 1998

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Topic

Affirmative action

Speaker

Julian Bond

Source

Speech at 89th NAACP Annual Convention, July 12, 1998

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bond, Julian. Speech at the NAACP annual convention. 89th NAACP Annual Convention. 12 July 1998, Atlanta, GA, USA.

It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it.

The Thin Red Line

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Speaker

Sgt. Storm

Actor

John C. Reilly

Source

The Thin Red Line

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) War (film) Epic War

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

We're gonna be in college soon. You know who's gonna be in college, right?...Women. College women. Women with no curfew, women on the pill, and women...women, bro. We're staring into the future here and the future is women.

Can't Hardly Wait

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Topic

Pursuing women College women

Speaker

Mike Dexter

Actor

Peter Facinelli

Source

Can't Hardly Wait

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Teen (film) Romantic comedy Teen

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Can't Hardly Wait. Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Columbia Pictures/Tall Trees Productions, 1998.

You don't make no mistakes? You be out here shootin', but you don't miss no shots ever? Ever? People make mistakes! People veer off the path! So what? God forgives them!

He Got Game

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Mistakes

Speaker

Jake Shuttlesworth

Actor

Denzel Washington

Source

He Got Game

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Drama (film) Sports Drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

He Got Game. Directed by Spike Lee, Touchstone Pictures/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1998.

If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?

Rounders

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Topic

Decisions and choices Counterfactual history

Speaker

Mike McDermott

Actor

Matt Damon

Source

Rounders

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.