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Movie Quote of the Day – Home for the Holidays, 1995 (dir. Jodie Foster)
Claudia: Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That’s what the day’s supposed to be all about, right? Torture.
Adele: That and giving thanks that we don’t have to go through this for another year. Except we do, because those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, 1984 (dir. W.D. Richter)
Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two.
Mission Control: Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia. . .or number 2?
Movie Quote of the Day – Big Trouble in Little China, 1986 (dir. John Carpenter)
Jack Burton: I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things.
Movie Quote of the Day – Nickelodeon, 1976 (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
H. H. Cobb: All those people going to see the pictures. And a lot of them can’t even talk American. Then they don’t have to because pictures are a language that everybody understands. It’s like music for the eyes. And if you’re good, if you’re really good, then maybe what you’re doing is giving them little tiny pieces of time that they never forget.
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