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Talk radio host: So Dan, are you looking forward to the new year? Dan: Not really. I mean, what's the point? Nothing changes on New Year's Day. The economy sucks. Gas is over three bucks a gallon. Fifth grade kids are shooting each other at recess. The whole thing sucks, right? So what the hell are we celebrating?

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Lenny: Now listen. I want you to know what we're talking about here, OK? This is not like TV, only better. This is life. It's a piece of somebody's life. It's pure, uncut, straight from the cerebral cortex. I mean, you're there. You're doing it. You're seeing it. You're hearing it. You're feeling it. Keith: What kind of things, exactly? Lenny: Exactly anything. Whatever you want. Whoever you want to be, OK? You want to go skiing without leaving your den — you can. But I'm assuming that a guy like you — if you want to go skiing you'd fly to Aspen. That's not what you're interested in here. It's about the stuff you can't have, right? The forbidden fruit, like running into a liquor store with a .357 magnum in your hand, feeling the adrenaline pumping through your veins. Or … you see the guy over there with the drop-dead Filipino girlfriend? Wouldn't you like to be that guy for twenty minutes — the right twenty minutes? Yeah. I can make it happen, and you won't even tarnish your wedding ri

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Steckler: You're that rapper, Jeriko One? You're the one that's been getting all the gang-bangers together, going downtown, forming citizen groups, trying to rake the LAPD over a cheese grater? Jeriko One: Yeah, that's right. And you're gonna be in my next song. It's gonna be called "Robo-Steckler." It's all about a cop who has his worst nightmare: a nigga with enough political juice to squash his ass like a stinkbug. You're gonna be famous, fucker!

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Lenny: Have you ever been in love with somebody who didn't return that love? Mace: Yeah, Lenny. I have. Lenny: It didn't stop you from loving them. Right? Or understanding them, or being able to forgive them. Mace: I guess. Lenny: And it didn't stop you from wanting to protect them. Did it? Mace: No, it didn't.

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Mace: I can't believe you had to give them the damn tape. Lenny: Yeah, I know. It was one of my favorites: me and Faith in the hot tub on my birthday. (takes the real tape out of his jacket) Are we impressed yet? Mace: Yeah, pretty impressed.

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Palmer Strickland: Nero. Lenny Nero: Strickland. Palmer Strickland: Comissioner Strickland! Lenny Nero: See, since you shit-canned my career, I don't even have to call you sir. One of life's small pleasures.

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Lenny Nero: I didn't know you were color blind, Max. Max: It was the only way I could stand your ties.

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Max: Only he doesn't know about me and Faith. So I say to myself: If I turn the job down, he just gets somebody else, and I lose Faith — to coin a phrase. So to buy time I do the skank. I still gotta do something about Tran. I figure it's him or me, but I can't cap him without a chump to take the fall. And who better than his girlfriend's loser ex-boyfriend, a known criminal who has been seen hassling them in public numerous times? Lenny Nero: And who was, regrettably, also your best fucking friend. Max: No plan is perfect, Lenny. Hey, cheer up. World's gonna end in ten minutes anyway.