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Damon Salvatore: I DO believe in killing the messenger. Why? Because it sends a message.

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Hamilton Burger: Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.

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Multiple characters: Mouth breather.

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Lt. Arthur Fancy: The future keeps telling us what the past was about. You make the past mean different things by the way you use the time that comes after.

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Dr. Meredith Grey: At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross.

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Columbo: Oh, I didn't come to ask any more questions. I came to arrest you.

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Valene Ewing Gibson Waleska: Now, I mean it, Abby. I just want an answer.
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: Well, I'm not saying we're having an affair and I'm not saying I'm not. I am saying that I can have him any time I want him.

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Rev. Morgan Hamilton: We cannot fight hate with hate. What are we teaching our children today? That will make things better tomorrow?

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Silly People - S2-E14

Carlos: You know who you are, Gaby? You're the kind of person who would have turned away Mary and Joseph from the inn.
Gabrielle: Well, they should have called ahead.

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Dear Mom and Dad - S1-E22

Roseanne: If my parents move to Lanford, I'm gonna be sleeping on a cot for the rest of my life because I'm gonna be in prison for blowing them away.
Dan: Honey, Honey, be realistic. You don't know how to use a gun. I'll do it.

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Sonny Crockett: I get these occasional urges for stability in my life.

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Yankee White - S1-E1

Gibbs: I heard you quit, Agent Todd.
Kate Todd: Happy news travels fast. Yes, I resigned. It was the right thing to do.
Gibbs: Yep. Pull that crap at NCIS, I won't give you a chance to resign.
Kate Todd: Is that a job offer?

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DCS Christopher Foyle: The uniform suits you.
Andrew Foyle: Thanks. I wish I could say the same about your dressing gown.

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