The best Quotes from When They See Us

The best Quotes from When They See Us

When They See Us is a 2019 American crime drama television miniseries created, co-written, and directed by Ava DuVernay for Netflix, that premiered in four parts on May 31, 2019. It is based on events of the 1989 Central Park jogger case and explores the lives and families of the five Black and Latino male suspects who were falsely accused then prosecuted on charges related to the rape and assault of a white woman in Central Park, New York City.

I don't commit to the crime. 'Cause I like to stick to the truth.
Season 1 Episode 3
All the guilt. It's lazy energy. It doesn't change the past and it doesn't shape the future.
If we don't believe man, we already lost.
Season 1 Episode 2
Happiness is something to look forward to.
Season 1 Episode 3
I guess I just like making dirty things shine, that's all.
Season 1 Episode 3
I'm done with everything here. Except for you.
Season 1 Episode 4
If they don't wanna hear my truth, I don't wanna waste my energy.
Season 1 Episode 4
Sometimes all you can do is try your best.
Season 1 Episode 4

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If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York
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Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.
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I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap
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In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?
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We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.
Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.
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Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!
I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!
Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1
I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.
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Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.
It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.
Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
New York is my favorite city in the world.
I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.
L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.
New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.
Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.
When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.
There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
I remember coming to New York in 1974. I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed.
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
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Annie: "Well, you sit still too long in New York and you get renovated."
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I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.
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Frank: "Dine and dash?"
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Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"
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What can I say, once you go white, you always stay tight. Hey, I think I just insulted myself.
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"Beat my ex-wife to death with a telephone."
Frank': "Cordless or landline?"
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Been sleeping in this car six years. Pissed, puked, jizzed in it. By law of bodily fluids, it's mine.
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I have red hair, freckles and crooked teeth. I don't need any more character!
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