Tripp: All right, assuming that pretending to own a yacht was a brilliant, romantic yet ultimately flawed idea, how do you see the rest of the day playing out?
Paula: I don't know. I'm so hungry, I can't think. Seagulls ate my lunch.
Tripp: What if I took you to a restaurant?
Paula: Are you gonna pretend to own it?
Tripp: No. All the restaurants I own are in Europe.
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Adam Meiks: He was my father. I loved him even if he had gone crazy.
Agent Wesley Doyle: Is everything you just told me true?
Adam Meiks: Why would I make it up?
Agent Wesley Doyle: You ever wanted to be a policeman or something?
Adam Meiks: Yeah, well, you know, when I was a kid.
Agent Wesley Doyle: You'll never get away with this.
Adam Meiks: God will protect me.
Newton Knight: It ain't just for us. Black, white, rich, poor, it's for everybody.
Jasper Collins: You know they shoot deserters, don't you?
Newton Knight: Hell, they shoot everybody around here anyway. It don't seem to make no difference where the bullet comes from.
Newton Knight: These men are here to vote. They mind dying a whole lot less than you do.
Moses: Deserted. How come?
Newton Knight: It ain't my fight, you know? Don't own no slaves. Ain't gonna die so they can get rich selling cotton.
Moses: That's why we left, too.
Newton Knight: No man ought to tell another man what he's gotta live for or what he's got to die for.
Mickey Pearson: There once was a young and foolish dragon who came to ask a wise and cunning lion about acquiring his territory. Now the lion, he wasn’t interested, so he told the little dragon to fuck off. The dragon, he couldn't understand what 'fuck off' meant, so he persisted, and he continued to ask the lion about acquiring his territory. So the lion took the little dragon for a walk and put five bullets in his little dragon head. End of story. Now allegedly there’s a message in there, I don't know what it is, but you're a clever boy Dry Eye, maybe you can explain it to me.
Raymond: I think your time's up, chaps.
Dry Eye: Michael, you should recons...
Mickey Pearson: Just marinade on it. In the meantime, fuck off.
Matthew: How does anyone grow fifty tons of super skunk without letting anyone else know how they do it?
Mickey Pearson: I'm flattered to hear that from you, Matthew. I imagine that big brain of yours is sweating a stream of tears just trying to figure it out.
Matthew: Brilliance should be acknowledged.
Connor Mead: Love is magic comfort food for the weak and uneducated!
Kenny Wells: God, we work hard in this business. Sometimes for nothing. I wake up every morning. I tell myself, "I don't have to do this. I get to do this." And then it's just blue skies. Blue skies, baby.
Kenny Wells: You see these hands? These are my fathers hands. I'll bury you with these hands.
Kenny Wells: The guy who invented the hamburger was smart. But the guy who invented the cheeseburger... Genius.
Kenny Wells: You went looking for bauxite, and you found copper. I went looking for gold, and found a friend.
Michael Acosta: That is the single hokiest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Ben: Hanging with her for 10 days is gonna be no problem.
Tony: Right. That's only nine days longer than you've ever spent with any other chick, huh?
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