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Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

β€œThe sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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[–] jossbo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Mine is from City Slickers. Billy Crystal keeps saying "hellooooooo" to the cows in a kind of half-moo voice. I use it all the time and no one gets it.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

If everyone's super, no one is. -Syndrome, The Incredibles

[–] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Listen to the sounds of the machine" From Elephant's Dream, a short animated film.

I'm an engineer, and there's something almost spiritual about that line and its delivery. I think about it every time I'm debugging or trying to understand how a complex system works

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[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive always been saying a line from a movie that even I didn't remember the movie:

"We're walking... We're walking..."

I had to look it up when a friend asked what movie it was from.

[–] Abrahamisaninja@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Otakat@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Technical fowl!" From that animated Adam Sandler movie about Hanukkah

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[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Rottcodd@lemmy.ninja 5 points 1 year ago

"If I say 'I know,' I stop thinking."

Nobody has ever gotten the reference, and many don't even get it after I explain it.

(It's from Nicholas Roeg's movie Insignificance, and it's said by an Einstein expy just called The Professor, explaining why it is that he's careful to always say that he thinks that ____ or believes that ____ or that the leading theory is that ____.)

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the original of Vanilla Sky, "Open Your Eyes" is an incredible movie

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Certainly it hurts. The trick is to not mind that it hurts" - Lawrence of Arabia

[–] Tathas@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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"I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?"

[–] Polo421@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

"careful with the radio, it's a radio."

-Cheech from New Movie

[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

"Heineken? Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

Said it once. Never again.

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