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In this post, you’ll find the quotes collected and .gifs made, across various media, during the month of February 2018.
Collected Quotes
Best Of
“I’m not recommending it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not valid.”
— Newness
“[…] spouses usually fall into one of two groups. One describes their loved one as someone who filled a void in them. The other describes them as someone who added a dimension to the person they already were.”
— The Bachelors
“You see the candle in everybody, but you cannot light anyone’s candle.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
“People push you, and then get surprised when you trip.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
“I look at dudes now like I look at the side of a cereal box, I want to know your nutritional value.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
“There’s no small roles, it’s just about how big you make your roles.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
“Politeness, in the way of purpose, is a problem.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
[…] Just cause someone loves you, doesn’t mean it’s always gonna work out. And just cause it didn’t work out doesn’t mean someone didn’t love you.
— “Un-Break My Heart.” Grown-ish
“If you’re afraid of being wrong and if you’re afraid of people saying “You were wrong, what an idiot, why did they do that?” then it’s a really rough job. […] You can’t be afraid of the public humiliation of everyone saying you don’t know what you’re doing. You can’t be driven by that. You have to be driven by what you actually wanted to see.”
— Amy Pascal
“Just because you f***ing it up doesn’t mean you ain’t trying.”
— Where’s The Money?
“Maybe I didn’t need to change my brain. Maybe I just needed to change my interpretation of it.”
— The Female Brain
“I think I’m very well understood by many people, and misunderstood by those who wish to misunderstand because they have an agenda that is different than mine.”
— Seeing Allred
“I think the world evolves and keeps evolving because of [the] phrase, “Fuck it” because somebody has to say it and they do what they do and just, “Fuck it.” […] There were rules, and someone said “Fuck it” […] and then they got mad, and someone said “Fuck it” and that’s how the fucking shit evolved with everything.”
— “Side Effects of Being an Innovator” Small Doses – Featuring Robert Glasper
“The final stage of healing is using what happens to you to help other people. That is healing in itself.”
— Seeing Allred
“What we believe shapes who we are. […] But when you believe a lie for too long, the truth doesn’t set you free. It tears you apart.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Clash By Night”
“[…] every birth is violent and there’s no death without pain.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 7 “Nora Inu”
“You are not trapped, you are waiting.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 4 “Force of Evil”
“Rage at injustice is universal. The ability to strike back is not.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Fallen Angel”
“You always have a choice between your ambition and your ego, and you have to be very clear which one you’re choosing all the time.”
— Full Producers Roundtable 2018 (Amy Pascal)
“A man without quirks is boring.”
— The Bachelors
“If you can’t be a mother to one, be a mother to many.”
— The Bachelors
“The saddest people are the ones that don’t know what they want.”
— Newness
The Rest
“It’s the job of the director to destroy the vision of the writer.”
— Terry Southern, as per Seth Rogen
“Rich kids get mischief and poor kids get pathologized and incarcerated.”
— Anna Deavere Smith
“You know what it’s gonna say on your gravestone? If you were a good parent and how long you lived. The rest is forgotten.”
— The Chi: Season 1/ Episode 7 “The Whistle”
“It’s not that I don’t want to be reminded. I just want to have some control over it.”
— The Bachelors
“Ignorance is your enemy. Knowledge is your weapon.”
— BPM (Beats Per Minute)
“[…] think is a strong word. Think is a strong word when combined with right. Right should be known, not thought.”
— Kiri: Season 1/ Episode 3
“No matter how long you live, you never finish.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 4 “Force of Evil”
“When everyone lies, telling the truth isn’t just rebellion. It’s an act of revolution.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 5 “The Wrong Man”
“You’re saying because I cannot fix everything, I should fix nothing at all.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 5 “The Wrong Man”
“Convince the crowd, you’re more likely to convince the man.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 8 “Clash By Night”
“I don’t run away anymore, I run toward.”
— Altered Carbon: Season 1/ Episode 10 “The Killers”
Words aren’t for understanding each other. They exist for the sake of talking to each other.
— The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Season 1/ Episode 18 “Forgive and Forget”
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.”
— Black Lightning: Season 1/ Episode 5 “And Then the Devil Brought the Plague: The Book of Green Light”
“The wise build bridges while the fools build barriers.”
— Black Panther
“Do not tell me what is possible, tell me the truth.”
— Black Panther
“You think too much and know too little.”
— The Quad: Season 2/ Episode 4 “I Am Not Your Negro”
“We can’t choose our parents, but we can choose what traits to take from them.”
— The Quad: Season 2/ Episode 4 “I Am Not Your Negro”
“Heroes don’t exist, just martyrs.”
— ExPatriot
“We all walk at different speeds. Sooner or later you catch your breath.”
— The Chi: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Penetrate a Fraud”
“You never lent nobody nothing but bad advice.”
— The Chi: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Penetrate a Fraud”
“There is either working hard, or fucking somebody who is working hard.”
— Amanda Seales – The Breakfast Club (2/1/2018)
“The hardest thing about gossip is knowing what to keep to yourself and what to ask the person involved.”
— The Borrowed Wife
“Every problem you had today, you had when you met. But you were fucking so you forgave.”
— Chris Rock: Tamborine
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