1990 · Skopia

Showing 60 quotes from 1990

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

1990

★ 7.0

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 6.1

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?... How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny.

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 5.3

"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 5.2

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 4.6

Feminist literature

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Sexual Personae · 1990

★ 4.5

I asked him one time what type of writing brought the most money and the agent says, "Ransom notes."

Get Shorty (novel) · 1990

★ 4.3

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

Goodfellas · 1990

★ 4.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

People put you down enough you start to believe it.

Pretty Woman · 1990

★ 4.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

I want the fairy tale.

Pretty Woman · 1990

★ 4.0

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

I don't want a new family. I don't want any family. Families suck!

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.9

Feminist literature

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Sexual Personae · 1990

★ 3.7

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

1990

★ 3.7

Press conference

This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990 · 1990

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

A line has been drawn in the sand.

George H.W. Bush

1990

★ 3.7

Film · Christmas (film) · Comedy (film) · Christmas · Comedy

Keep the change, ya filthy animal!

Home Alone · 1990

★ 3.7

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

In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

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

Black as midnight on a moonless night.

Twin Peaks · 1990

★ 3.7

Children's literature

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Oh, the Places You'll Go! · 1990

★ 3.6

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

1990

★ 3.6

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