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Richard Burton from Where Eagles Dare | PopCultureQuotes.com

Broadsword calling Danny Boy. . . Broadsword calling Danny Boy!

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By: Richard Burton
Characters: Major John Smith
From: Where Eagles Dare

Context:
Richard Burton says while contacting British MI-6 headquarters by radio, during an operation to penetrate the German army's Schloss Adler (Castle of Eagles), in order to rescue captured American General Carnaby (Robert Beatty), an Allied planner for Operation Overlord (D-Day).

Denzel Washington from The Equalizer | PopCultureQuotes.com

When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too!

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By: Denzel Washington
Characters: Robert McCall
From: The Equalizer

Context:
Denzel Washington as Robert McCall says this to Marton Csokas' character Teddy, in Antoine Fuqua's film The Equalizer, based on the 1980's television series of the same name. McCall had just dispatched yet another group of Russian gangsters that Teddy had sent to kill him. The gangsters were sitting at a restaurant table eating with Teddy, describing how sure they were that they could "take care of him." The thugs get up to leave and moments later McCall enters the restaurant, sits at Teddy's table and gives him these words of wisdom... along with the bloodied sun glasses of one of the assassins.

Bill Paxton from Aliens | PopCultureQuotes.com

Stop your grinnin’ and drop your linen!

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By: Bill Paxton
Characters: Private Hudson
From: Aliens

Context:
Bill Paxton as Private Hudson in James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi epic Aliens. Hudson - while doing a satellite sweep - thinks he's found a group of missing colonists on a mining colony set on a distant moon. What he actually found were incubated and/or dead colonists, along with a pack of not so friendly alien creatures.

Warren Buffett | PopCultureQuotes.com

Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding. Lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.

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By: Warren Buffett

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After taking control of Salomon in the wake of a major 1991 scandal at the financial firm, Buffet famously told a Congressional panel that was his message for employees of the company.

source: www.cnbc.com,  

Jack Valenti | PopCultureQuotes.com

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

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By: Jack Valenti

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Jack Valenti, then head of the Motion Picture Association of America, famously warned against the use of VCRs at a congressional hearing in 1982. Hollywood was concerned about a machine that could record television programs without requiring any fees. History shows Valenti couldn’t have been more wrong, as consumers ended up spending billions to buy and rent copies of their favorite movies. By 1986, the $4.4 billion consumers spent buying and renting VHS tapes exceeded the $3.8 billion they spent going to the movies at the theater. On July 21, 2016, Japanese manufacturer Funai Electric, the last maker of VHS-compatible video cassette recorders, announced that they would cease producing the devices at the end of the month due to declining sales. Sony said it would cease production of video tapes in its Betamax format in 2015, 13 years after it stopped making compatible recorders.

Ryan Murphy | PopCultureQuotes.com

If the United States continues its decline, we should absolutely expect continuing anemic long-run growth rates.

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By: Ryan Murphy

Context:
Professor and economist Ryan Murphy talking about stagnant wages and economic growth in the U.S. since the 2008 financial crisis , where annual expansion has yet to crack 3 percent.

source: www.cnbc.com,  

Mark Zuckerberg | PopCultureQuotes.com

Yesterday, a Minnesota woman named Diamond Reynolds went live on Facebook immediately after her fiancé, Philando Castile, had been shot by police in his car. Philando later died from his wounds. In the video, Diamond's 4-year-old daughter is watching from the back seat.

My heart goes out to the Castile family and all the other families who have experienced this kind of tragedy. My thoughts are also with all members of the Facebook community who are deeply troubled by these events.

The images we've seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking, and they shine a light on the fear that millions of members of our community live with every day. While I hope we never have to see another video like Diamond's, it reminds us why coming together to build a more open and connected world is so important -- and how far we still have to go.

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By: Mark Zuckerberg

Context:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg comments on a Facebook Live Stream of the aftermath of a police-involved shooting in Minnesota. The shooting took the life of Philando Castile, who was shot in front of his fiancé, Diamond Reynolds, and her 4-year-old daughter.

source: www.facebook.com,  

Chris Hardwick | PopCultureQuotes.com

There are nerds, and then there are "Nerdists." A "Nerdist" is, more specifically, an artful nerd. He or she doesn't just consume, he or she creates and innovates.

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By: Chris Hardwick

Context:
Chris Hardwick is an actor, host and comedian who founded Nerdist Industries, a digital media empire that has spawned numerous offshoots, including an improv school and live performance theater in Los Angeles, dozens of pop culture-related podcasts, an entertainment news website, among other entities.

source: nerdist.com,  

Barry Corbin from WarGames | PopCultureQuotes.com

God dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good. Let the boy in there major!

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: General Beringer
From: WarGames

Context:
Barry Corbin as General Beringer said this to skeptical colleagues who were preventing computer hacker Matthew Broderick from trying to shut down an A.I.-enhanced computer system in John Badham's 1983 film WarGames. The system - called "WOPR," short for War Operation Plan Response - was based at a NORAD command center in Washington State and was attempting to start Global Thermonuclear War as part of a computer simulation gone wrong.

Matt Damon | PopCultureQuotes.com

I mean you're workin' on some crazy stuff in these buildings. Stuff that would freak me out if I actually understood it. I'm going to tell you about one that's been on my mind - Simulation Theory. The basic idea as I understand it is that we all could be living in a massive simulation, run by a far smarter civilization, like a giant computer game, and we don't even know it.

What if this, all of this, IS a simulation.

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By: Matt Damon

Context:
Matt Damon says during a commencement speech he gave a MIT.

James Coburn from Harry in Your Pocket | PopCultureQuotes.com

  • Casey - As soon as credit cards disappear, everything will start to pick up again.
  • Harry - No way. If anything money will go away. Soon, we'll all be a number in a big computer.
  • Casey - Money go away! Are you crazy, it'll never happen!
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By: James Coburn
Characters: Harry
From: Harry in Your Pocket

Context:
A conversation between professional pickpockets Harry (James Coburn) and Casey (Walter Pidgeon) from the 1973 film Harry in Your Pocket. They were on a ferry from Seattle to Victoria, British Columbia discussing the economy and lowered expectations of how much they were finding in their marks' wallets.