Quotes

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Reporter: Jude! One word for your fans? Jude: Ocelot.

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Jude: Whoa, look at all these medicines! Hey man, what are those? Man at Party: Mandy's, make you sleep. Jude: Sleep? I don't need sleep. Sleep is for dreamers.

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Hobo: Coulda sworn you was an older man. Woody: Well, I used to be. Much older.

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President Nixon: I have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in southeast Asia. The following statement is being issued at this moment in Washington and Hanoi: At 12:30 Paris time today, January 23, 1973 … [trails off] Robbie: That's when she knew it was over for good. The longest running war in television history. The war that hung like a shadow over the same nine years as her marriage. So why was it suddenly so hard to breathe?

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Claire: I would like to know what is at the center of your world. Robbie: Center of my world? Wow, you're not monkeyin' around. Claire: Why? It's very simple, this question. Robbie: Hm, well, I'm 22. I guess I would say me. Claire: I suppose you are honest. Robbie: Don't you think that you're the center or that you should be the center? Thinking with your own head, talking with your own mouth? Claire: Yes, but there are things in the world, too, that are important.

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Jude: Feeling deeply, that's what this is about? What precisely, please do tell, am I supposed to be feeling, huh? Keenan Jones: I'm simply referring to standard emotions – pain, remorse, love. Jude: Yeah, I have none of those feelings.

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Jude: Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels – I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead. You'd think that these traditional music people would – would gather that mystery, you know, is a traditional fact, you know, seeing as they're all so full of mystery. Keenan Jones: And contradictions. Jude: Yeah, contradictions. Keenan Jones: And chaos. Jude: Yes, it's chaos, clocks, and watermelons – you know, it's – it's everything. These people actually think I have some kind of, uh, fantastic imagination. It gets very, uh