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Jack Walsh: "I know my rights. You owe me phone calls
FBI Special Agent Alonzo Mosely: "What should be of paramount importance to you right now is not the phone calls. It's the fact that you're gonna spend ten years for impersonating a Federal agent."
Walsh: "Ten years for impersonating a Fed, huh?"
Mosely: "Ten years."
Walsh: "How comes no one's after you?"
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"Black milk of dawn, we drink it in the evening
We drink it mid-days and in the morning, we drink it at night."
—Paul Celan, Todesfuge
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"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fuckin' word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head." - Midnight Run
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"Back in the 1600s, Paulaner monks moved from Southern Italy to the Cloister Neudeck ob der Au in Bavaria. “Being a strict order, they were not allowed to consume solid food during Lent,” the braumeister and beer sommelier of Paulaner Brewery Martin Zuber explained in a video on the company’s website.
They needed something other than water to sustain them, so the monks turned to a common staple of the time of their region – beer. They concocted an “unusually strong” brew, full of carbohydrates and nutrients, because “liquid bread wouldn’t break the fast,” Zuber noted."
—These Seventeeth-Century Monks Did a Beer Fast for Lent
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"Sidney, siddown, relax, have a sandwich, drink a glass of milk, do some fuckin' thing." - Midnight Run
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few."
—Shunryu Suzuki
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Alonzo Mosely: "Let me tell you something, asshole. I've been working on this Jimmy Serrano thing for about six years; Mardukas is my shot. I'm gonna bring him into federal court, and I don't want any third-rate rent-a-thug who couldn't cut it as a cop in Chicago bringing him to LA on some bullshit local charge. Do I make myself understood?"
Jack Walsh: "Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they're really nice: are they government-issued, or all you guys go to the same store to get them?"
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"The challenge to the surgeon is to re-attach the muscle to the bone in a way that glides smoothly within the pulley system of the hand. Flexor tendon injuries to the index and long finger tend to impede tasks that require fine motor skills; injuries to the flexor tendons of the ring or small fingers usually have a greater impact on grip strength." — Anon., Wiki, "Musculoskeletal Medicine For Medical Students": "Flexor Tendon Injury."
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Jack Walsh: "Eddie, Eddie, I swear to God, don't start with me or so help me, I will shoot him and dump him in a fuckin' swamp!" [Mardukas looks frightened, but Jack frowns and shakes his head at him as if to say, "Not really"]
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"You know what they say: if they're old enough to sit at the table, they're old enough to eat." — coworker's response to my suggestion that Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin bride was pretty good looking.
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"You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?" - Midnight Run
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"Gimme water. Give me somebody's daughter." — The Who
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"Start by shutting up. I know you all of two minutes and already I don't like ya." - Midnight Run
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"Cruelty, it's to extirpate by blood including the divine blood, the beastly randomness of the unconscious, human animality, wherever one might meet it." — Artaud, "To have finished with the judgment of God:
=="La cruauté, c’est d’extirper par le sang et jusqu’au sang dieu, le hasard bestial de l’animalité inconsciente humaine, partout où on peut le rencontrer."
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"Jack, nothing personal, but fuck off." - Midnight Run
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"The company told sellers on Thursday that it will no longer operate its third-party online marketplace or provide seller services on its Chinese website." — Julie Wernau and Yoko Kubota, "Amazon Quits Chinese Business," in WSJ 19-Apr-2019
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"Hey! Hey, Robert, what you're doing? —He's mine, Jack, get lost. — Fuck you he's yours, he's mine, what the [unintelligble] you doing. — Well then go straighten it out with Eddie, I collect the money. —I almost got killed too trying to get this guy, he shot at me. — BACK OFF! I said I'm taking him, all right? *— All right. I'm worth twelve-hundred. — All right, Marvin, we're friends, what thet hell we fightin' for?" —MN R
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"—I got money, you know. —I'm sure you do. —I'll give you whatever you want. —Start by shutting up. I know you of two minutes and already I don't like you." —MN R
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"Whydn't you get yourself a new watch? —Tell you when I know you better. —When you know me better? When you going to know me better? You better? You're not going to know me better. —Shut. Up. —That's what I mean." —MN R
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"I can say 'Hello' in a lot of different languages. Not yours, but a lot of them." MN R
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"You put Marvin on this case, you fuckin' piece of shit? You fucking, deceptive - you VERMIN! You SLIMEBALL in a SEA of PUS!" - Midnight Run
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"All right, it's fucking zero. You happy now, you crazy fuck?" —TBL
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Jonathan Mardukas: [impersonating an FBI agent] "Would you describe exactly what the last man who passed a $20 bill to you looked like?"
Bar Cashier: "Thirty, tall...."
Mardukas: "About 6 feet?"
Cashier: [shakes head] "Six-five."
Mardukas: "Dark hair?"
Cashier: "Light-colored."
Mardukas: [looks at Jack] "Sounds like our man."
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"That's bad. This one? Yeah, that's bad too. You'll get a receipt." (or something like that). MN R
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" You get it started, and I'll run you over. That's the best plan I can think of." - Midnight Run
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"—Wha, what the fuck's going on? You guys ain't cops! —Nah, we're ballet dancers." —MN R
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"[Y]ou're a fucking criminal and you deserve to go where you're going, and I'm going to take you there, and if I hear any more shit out of you, I'm going to fucking bust your head and I'm going to put you back in that fucking hole, and I'm going to stick your head in the fucking toilet bowl, and I'm going to make it stay there. —Well. I have to tell you, a restaurant is a very tricky investment." —MN R
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Jonathan Mardukas: "You can't steal a truck!"
Jack Walsh: "You were stealing a plane!"
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"My name is Special Agent Mosley.....Jack Walsh....of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. —That's not the name it says on the badge. Do you want me to call the FBI, or do you want to pay cash?" —MN R
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Jack Walsh: "That whole fuckin' department was corrupt!"
Jonathan Mardukas: "There's good and bad everywhere, don't you think?"
Walsh: "Eh, well, I'd say there's bad everywhere. Good I don't know about."
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"—Did you ever have sex with an animal, Jack? Remember those chickens around the Indian reservation? There were some good-looking chickens there, Jack. You know, between us. —Yeah, a couple I wouldn't have minded taking a shot at." —MN R
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"Why aren't you popular with the Chicago Police Department?" - Midnight Run
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"‘Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess and not a dead pavane for a princess!" —Maurice Ravel, cited in Angela Hewitt (Canadian pianist, probably best known for her interpretations of Bach and "French" post-Romantic keyboard works), liner notes to Ravel The Complete Solo Piano Music, on the Hyperion label, 2002.
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Jonathan Mardukas: "Come on, cigarettes are killers."
Jack Walsh: "So are women."
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"As an author and programmer, I'm faced with a dilemma: do I simply jump forward to Python 3.0 or [blah blah]." — D. Beazley, Python. Essential Reference. Fourth Edition. the only book on the Python language worth owning in physical format: legible, slim, comprehensive, with interesting insights into the development of the language, notably between 2.6 and 3.x O'Reilly, your days are numbered. Sorry to say, an otherwise loathesome publisher, Addison-Wesley, has a tremendous near-monopoloy in it's Developer's Library series.
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Jonathan Mardukas: "You ever had lyonnaise potatoes? They are these types of potatoes that are sautéed but then they have this onion thing added to them, and they are really, really delicious. They work well with any, uh, chicken or pork dish. You know I could set you up with lyonnaise potatoes for the rest of your life."
Jack Walsh: "Why don't you just shut the fuck up?"
Midnight Run
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"Yeah, I know, you're going put my head in that place." —Mardukas, MN R
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Jack Walsh: "How much [cash] is here?"
Jonathan Mardukas: "Neighborhood of three hundred thousand."
Walsh: "That's a, that's a... very respectable neighborhood."
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"—I did the [dead] bird. —C'mon, now don't talk back. Mime is money. Let's go, come on, move it!" —This Is Spinal Tap
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Airline Pilot: "Can I help you guys?"
Alonzo Mosely: "Special Agent Mosely, FBI."
Airline Pilot: "Are all you guys named 'Mosely'?"
Midnight Run
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"Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering your livestock
They know what I need."
—Spinal Tap, "Sex Farm" (one day I'll remember all the words so I can sing it at work).
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"Are you gonna stand up there with your thumb up your ass? Or you gonna get me the fuck outta here?" - Midnight Run
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"And he said, 'Well, son, you won't make much money but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra.'" — Robertson reporting "The Hawk" in the motion picure The Last Waltz
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Airline Ticket Clerk: [selling a flight ticket to Marvin] "Would that be smoker or non-smoker, sir?"
Marvin Dorfler: [exhaling smoke] "Take a wild guess."
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Don Job: "Now let's you just drop them pants."
Bobby: "Drop?"
Don Job: "Just take them right off."
—Deliverance
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"You're OK, Jack. I think... under different circumstances you and I probably still would have hated each other!" - Midnight Run
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"There is [...] every reason to believe that liturgical rapport, especially right at the beginning of Mass, turns worship into an ecclesiastical version of Hello Dolly." — Th. Daly, Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste
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"I'm gonna tell you something. I want this guy taken out, and I want him taken out fast. You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fucking pencil. You get the message?"
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"Working on a sex farm
Wolfing down some cornbread
I'm turning on the TV
Joining the grange."
—Spinal Tap, "Sex Farm"
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"You two are the dumbest bounty hunters I have ever seen! You couldn't even deliver a bottle of milk!" - Midnight Run