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Interview · TV program

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.0

Interview · TV program

Weightlessness is a great equalizer.

1984

★ 1.0

I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.

2002

★ 1.0

Television. That's where movies go when they die.

1953

★ 1.2

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

You think I have time to ask a man why he givin' me money or where he gets his money from? I'll take any motherfucker's money if he givin' it away!

2006

★ 1.2

Interview · TV program

Generosity truly is the best investment.

Diane von Furstenberg

2015

★ 1.2

Interview · TV program

You will never be free until we are free.

1999

★ 1.3

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

You know the difference between me and you? I bleed red and you bleed green.

The Wire · 2004

★ 1.3

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?

The Wire · 2006

★ 1.3

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

What could possess anyone to throw a party? I mean, to have a bunch of strangers treat your house like a hotel room.

Seinfeld · 1991

★ 1.3

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

It's ironic... That we've come all this way, we made all this progress, but you know, we lost the little things, the niceties.

Seinfeld · 1992

★ 1.3

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Log off. That "cookies" shit makes me nervous.

The Sopranos · 2001

★ 1.4

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we…remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 1.8

TV program · Drama (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Drama · Comedy

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead.

Mr. Peanutbutter

Bojack Horseman · 2014

★ 1.8

Interview · TV program

Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.9

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Cosmos · 1980

★ 1.9

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.

1980

★ 1.9

TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

I always figured girls knew exactly what they wanted. They knew-they had a plan. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they were just as confused as we were. Isn’t that great? It's-it’s horrible. They don’t know either. That means nobody knows.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

The Wonder Years · 1989

★ 1.9

Interview · TV program

We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat.

Donald Rumsfeld

2003

★ 1.9

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1964

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Science is whatever we want it to be.

30 Rock · 2007

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?

Parks and Recreation · 2011

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Celibacy is a lot less complicated than romantic relationships.

Fleabag · 2019

★ 1.9

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Hair is everything. We wish it wasn’t so we could actually think about something else occasionally. But it is. It’s the difference between a good day and a bad day. We’re meant to think that it’s a symbol of power, that it’s a symbol of fertility.

Fleabag · 2019

★ 1.9

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Anybody that goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!

All in the Family · 1972

★ 2.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Them Sicilians are famous for two things: Spaghetti and revenge.

All in the Family · 1972

★ 2.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I am going to need something to kill time before my second beer. How about a first one?

Cheers · 1983

★ 2.0

TV program · Mystery (TV) · Drama (TV) · Mystery · Drama

A damn fine cup of coffee.

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 2.0

TV program · Mystery (TV) · Drama (TV) · Mystery · Drama

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 2.0

Interview · TV program

I'm not sitting here because I'm some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I am sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

1992

★ 2.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and you tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil. These fucks had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine.

Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri

The Sopranos · 1999

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

Just because a girl speaks her mind doesn't mean she's a psycho.

Freaks and Geeks · 2000

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Teddy Roosevelt gave an entire once speech with a bullet lodged in his chest. Some things are a matter of duty.

The Sopranos · 2001

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters.

D'Angelo Barksdale

The Wire · 2006

★ 2.0

TV program · Drama (TV) · Drama

Remember, Don... When God closes a door, he opens a dress.

Mad Men · 2007

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.

The Office · 2007

★ 2.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

La familia es todo.

Breaking Bad · 2010

★ 2.0

TV program · Drama (TV) · Drama

We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.

Mad Men · 2010

★ 2.0

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I want to open up my own club one day, maybe call it something like Club a Dub Dub or the Club Marine, sort of a submarine-themed club, or Tom’s Bistro. The word "bistro" is classy as shit.

Parks and Recreation · 2010

★ 2.0

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