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Stop Making Sense picture

David Byrne: Thanks! Does anybody have any questions?

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TT3D: Closer to the Edge picture

Narrator: Over the next seven days, there will be many scrapes and near misses, seven cracked vertebrae, four broken ribs, five life-threatening incidents, two bruised lungs and unfortunately, much worse.

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The Real Cancun picture

Jorell Washington: Hey, give me some water, dawg. And I'm not talkin about this kind. I'm talking about the tequila.

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20,000 Days on Earth picture

Nick Cave: To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

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Live Forever picture

Liam Gallagher: Didn't like music then. Just played football and come in late for me tea. Knocked on people's doors and run off. Ran through people's gardens and pinched things.
Interviewer: What sort of things would you pinch?
Liam Gallagher: Clothes off the washing line. If I thought they looked pretty cool, I thought, "I'll have that." Mountain bikes. Lawnmowers.
Interviewer: You used to pinch lawnmowers?
Liam Gallagher: Yeah. And sell 'em. For weed.

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Beyond the Mat picture

Vince McMahon: Oh my, God! He's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna puke! He's gonna puke! He's gonna puke! He's gonna puke.

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Damien Wayne Echols: I knew from when I was real small people were gonna know who I was, I always had that feeling... I just never knew how they were gonna learn. I kind of enjoy it now because even after I die, people are gonna remember me forever. People are gonna talk about me for years. People in West Memphis will tell their kids stories... It'll be sorta like I'm the West Memphis boogie man. Little kids will be looking under their beds - "Damien might be under there!"

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Jim Jones: Be assured in that choice is not ours now. It's out of our hands. Die with respect. Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity. Don't lay down with tears and agony. Stop this hysterics. Keep your emotions down. Children, it will not hurt if you'll be quiet.

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What the #$*! Do We Know!? picture

Ramtha: Have you ever stopped for a moment and looked at yourself through the eyes of the ultimate observer?

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Super Size Me picture

Daryl Isaacs: You're sick, and you're making yourself sick, and you can make yourself unsick by stopping doing what you're doing.

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The Big One picture

Audience Member: You should run for President! It would send a message.
Michael Moore: What message? Eat out more often?

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Woodstock picture

Richie Havens: There are a hundred million songs gonna be sung tonight. All of them are going to be singing about the same thing, which I hope, everybody who came, came to hear. Really. And it's all about you. Actually. And me and everybody around the stage and everybody that hasn't gotten here and the people that are gonna read about you tomorrow. Yes! And how really groovy you were. All over the world! If you can dig where that's at.

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Eddie Izzard: Circle picture

Eddie: This is football we're talking about here, which you call bananas and you're reluctant to play it. But you play baseball, the World Series. You've won every year, America's won every year in that. Well done America.

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Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain picture

Kevin Hart: Let's get some fire up on these bitches one time.

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Hoop Dreams picture

William Gates: That's why when somebody say, "when you get to the NBA, don't forget about me", and that stuff. Well, I should've said to them, "if I don't make it, don't you forget about me."

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The September Issue picture

Journalist: Many people said that you are an 'Ice Woman'.
Anna Wintour: Well, this week it was pretty cold, that's all I can say.

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The King of Kong picture

Billy Mitchell: I've pointed out to Steve that he's the person he is today because he came under the wrath of Bill Mitchell.

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Oceans picture

Narrator: Every breath we take, and every drop we drink, depends on a healthy ocean. Now, their life depends on us.

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Jackass 3D picture

Phil Margera: I had to take a mean shit.

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Deliver Us from Evil picture

Bob Jyono: I made up my mind. There is no God. I do not believe in a God, all right? All these rules, everything... they're made up by man, you know?

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