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We're racing toward the extinction of our species. We not only lack dominion over nature, we're subordinate to it.

Jurassic Park - Jurassic World 3: Dominion

The world has just changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up.

Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

Change

Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions.

Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park - III

Morality

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.

John Hammond in Jurassic Park - The Lost World

Nature & Environment

Ian Malcolm: "I told the truth."
Peter Ludlow: "Your version of it."
Ian Malcolm: "There are no versions of the truth."

Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park - The Lost World

Truth

John Hammond: "There is no doubt our attractions will drive kids out of their minds."
Dr. Alan Grant: "What are those?"
Ellie Sattler: "Small versions of adults, honey."

Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park

T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. Can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct.

Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

Los Angeles

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer

Maggie: "You've got Hayley tonight. Just calling to remind. Six o'clock, okay? Not 6:10. Not 6:05."
Mickey: "Who's the lucky guy? Do I know him?"

Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 Episode 1

Detective: "I need you to both leave. Now."
Lorna: "Dicky-do's, I'm telling you."
Detective: "What was that?"
Lorna: "That wasn't meant for you. But if you heard me, you heard me."

Lorna Crane in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 Episode 1

The thing about this case, I need to win it in court and I need to win in the court of public opinion. The world is quick to cancel these days. Just take a look at my Twitter feed.

Trevor Elliott in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 Episode 1

Woke / Cancel Culture

Working with your ex-wife is one thing, hiring her boyfriend is pushing it, even for you.

Lorna Crane in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 Episode 1

Sometimes I think they teach it in the academy, how to piss people off. When you think of all the bad blood between the people and police, you'd think "how not to piss people off" would be in the curriculum.

Lorna Crane in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 Episode 1

Trevor: "In court, before you can win, you gotta believe you can win."
Izzy: "But what if you don't?"
Trevor: "Then you better fake it 'til you make it."

Trevor Elliott in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture.

P. J. O'Rourke

Miami Tel Aviv

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Miami - which is kinda the same.

Miami

You can leave Miami, but it will never leave you.

Miami

Miami is bringing in more guns, drugs and hot cars than any other city on the East Coast.

Phil Rask in StartUp - Season 1 Episode 3

Miami

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Jerry Seinfeld

Florida

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

Pam Bondi

Florida

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

Channing Tatum

Florida

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

Florida Washington (State)

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

Love

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Johnny Depp

Love Laughing & Smile Breathing

Angelica: "I am with child. Yours."
Jack: "I don't recall that we ever had..."
Angelica: "You were drunk!"
Jack: "I've actually never been that drunk."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides

Angelica: "I love you!"
Jack: "As do I. Always have. Always will."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides

Will Turner: "Where's Elizabeth?"
Jack Sparrow: "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really. Except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman."

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia, you are not scared, you are an a-shole!

Morgan Freeman

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.

Morgan Freeman

Ambition

Never let pride be your guiding principle! Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Morgan Freeman

Pride

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

Actors

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Anthony Hopkins

Bullying

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gene Hackman

Actors

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Gene Hackman

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Gene Hackman

One thing I know... success is all about momentum.

Trevor Elliott in The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Michael Connelly

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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