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Movie Quote of the Day – Sneakers, 1992 (dir. Phil Alden Robinson)
Cosmo: There’s a war out there, old friend, a world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information: What we see and hear, how we work, what we think. It’s all about the information.
Movie Quote of the Day – Hugo, 2011 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Georges Méliès: My life has taught me one lesson, Hugo, and not the one I thought it would. Happy endings only happen in the movies.
Movie Quote of the Day – Schindler’s List, 1993 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I’d made more money… I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I’d just…
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn’t do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
[sobbing]
Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person… and I didn’t! And I… I didn’t!
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