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Olive Snook: Yesterday, a farrier named Lucas Shoemaker was found dead. Trampled.
Emerson Cod: Why should I care about a dude that sells fur coats?
Olive Snook: Not a furrier, a farrier. Heir.
Emerson Cod: Fair-rier?
Olive Snook: It's a blacksmith. Puts shoes on horses.
Emerson Cod: Don't try to act like that's a word everybody knows.

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Fiona Gallagher: Did the two of us finish an entire gallon of box wine the other night?

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Mark Gordon: Cute, Jonathan. Real cute.

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Archie Bunker: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you are one dumb Polack.

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Man in Black: This whole world is a story. I've read every page except the last one. I need to find out how it ends. I want to know what this all means.
Lawrence: See, now that's why I never learned to read.

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Phillip Broyles: Someone out there is experimenting, only the whole world is their lab.

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Nurse Amy: She's your wife's landlord. That would be your present wife, number four, isn't it? And she wants all your belongings out of the house by to-night.
Michael: And did she say why?
Nurse Amy: Nooo, but I'm sure we'll be reading about it in tomorrow morning's newspaper.

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Jason Morgan: The first time I ever saw grief was when Sonny's wife Lily died. It made me understand that bad things happen fast but you live through them slow. Lily was gone in a flash. Her car exploded. But, Sonny fell apart for a long time after. He had to relearn how to do everything.

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Adam: I'm sure everyone here is fascinated to hear more pop psychiatry from number fifty-four in his class at Columbia Med.

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Birdman of Budapest - S3-E15

Higgins: Magnum, l must say, l'm impressed.
Magnum: With my dictionary?
Higgins: No, with your living quarters. They're actually tidy.
Magnum: Don't act so surprised!
Higgins: Where is all the...usual unpleasantness, the abandoned bits of food and drink, the soiled garments, the sundry unidentifiable artifacts l expect to find when l walk in?
Magnum: A-HA! That is precisely my point. You *expect* to walk in. Higgins...l don't walk in on you, do l?
Higgins: Of course you do. All the time, as a matter of fact. But I look upon it as one of life's little unpleasantries, like a minor rash or an ingrown toenail.
(00:04:25)

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Sloane: Marshall, would you please go back to work?
Agent Marshall Flinkman: Just to clarify, I'm not being fired?
Sloane: Back to work means not fired.

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Yagami Light: I'll solve equations with my right hand and write names with my left. I'll take a potato chip... and eat it.

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Legend of the Dark Knight: 13 Stitches - S5-E6

Edward Nygma: [while Lucius Fox is removing the chip from his brain] Ow! Will you be careful?
Lucius Fox: If you'll stop moving, this will go a lot faster.
Edward Nygma: Well, if you would be more careful, I wouldn't potato all the long legs from the hidden spoon.
Barbara Kean: What just happened?
Lucius Fox: I believe the chip is installed against his speech center.
Barbara Kean: Huh. Do it again.
Lucius Fox: The human brain is not a play thing, Ms. Kean.
Edward Nygma: Please don't habituate the curtain rod.

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Claudius: A man should keep faith with his friends, even when they're dead.

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Unfinished Business - S1-E10

Omar: That's the great thing about the compound bow, a great equalizer. A little bit of practice, even a girl can make that shot.

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Caleb Nichol: I've come to ask a favor.
Sandy: I'm sorry, what did you say?
Caleb Nichol: You didn't hear me?
Sandy: No, I heard you, I... I just want to make you say it again.

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XI - S2-E3

Ann Bonnie: If you're angry about the whore and me, just fucking say so.
Jack Rackham: You have an itch that needs scratching, go with God. My trouble isn't that she knows how to play the thing between your legs better than I do, but the one between your ears.

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D.A. Wayne Wallis: I heard your university board has you on probation. Something about sleeping with a student?
Hayes Morrison: Students.

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