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Movies/TV
"I can see why you like this camera so much. Its totally like filtered reality man. It's like you can pretend everything is not quite the way it is."
"You shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize."
"You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."
"Sure, we're speaking, Jedediah--you're fired"
"I always gagged on the silver spoon."
"Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of."
"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since, that I haven't thought of that girl."
"Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane."
"These walls are kind of funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways."
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
"Yeah. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
"Maybe I should rob the FoodWay so they'll send me home. I could shoot the manager while I'm at it, kind of like a bonus."
"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals."
"I could help you, but I'd rather stand here and record."
"I don't want to say goodbye, I just want to look at you. . ."
"Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."
"Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
"The truth is always the right answer."
"You're cruel Oskar. You're giving them hope. Now *that's* cruel!"
"Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'd be very unhappy."
"How much would you pay for a person?"~
"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
"Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has two hundred thousand moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good doesn't it?"
"The Dude abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' it easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals."
"What kind of a land is this where you almost mean what you say? Where laws almost work?"
"It's not true. Some of have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times. Noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."
"Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here"
"If there's a mental health organization that raises money for people like you, be sure to let me know."
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure."
"Well, I'm just sayn', man, seriously, don't mess with kitty, man."
"You ever notice how all the prices end in nine? That's eerie..."
"Size matters not."
"Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"
"This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive."
"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?"
"The ablilty to speak does not make you intelligent."
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee!"
Songs
"This world's an ugly place, but you're so beautiful to me."
"I never thought I’d die alone. I laughed the loudest who’d have known?"
"My mind wanders as I'm trying not to fall in love with you."
"Am I strung out, crazy, or not allowed to be the one who gets stupid over you?"
"I think I'm different, but I'm the same and I'm wrong."
"If young love is just a game, then I must have missed the kick-off"
"You used to read me stories, as if my dreams were boring."
"Tell me why you want to be blind, I don't want to be normal like you."
"Have you ever been out some place, reconizing everybodies face until you relized that there was no one there you knew."
"Do you know about his strength of conviction? Or how she puts all her faith in religion? Do you take the time to really discover how little we know about each other?"
"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
Books
"People are stupid. They will believe anything you tell them. Either because they want it to be true, or they're afraid that its true."
"The mice think they are right but my cat eats them anyway. The point is, reality is nothing, perception is everything"
"Ending is better than mending"
"One would think he was going to have his throat cut. Whereas, if he had the smallest sense, he'd understand that his punishment is really a reward. He's being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Everyone, in a word, who's anyone..."
"You take my life when you take the means by which I live"
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"Is all that we see and seem but a dream within a dream?"
"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture-it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead."
General Quotes
"A million people could believe a foolish thing. But it is still a foolish thing."
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought"
"A true seeker can not accept any teachings,not if he sincerely wishes to find something."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star."
"You will never find time for anything. You must make it."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
"An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all."
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
"Better to die on your feet in one instant than to live on your knees forever."
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