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WHY SO SéRIES

52 quotes, with Why so séries in movies
S01 • E01  - 00:05
Wild Isles • 2023 • Season 1 • Episode 1

Transcript:
In this series, we'll show you
why that is so ...

S01 • E03  - 00:07
The Problem With Jon Stewart • 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 3

Transcript:
So in this new series,
I'm going to teach you why this country won't raise
the minimum wage.

 - 00:16
Stan Lee • 2023

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The book went on sale. Later, when the sales figures came in, Martin came running into my office,
he said, "Stan! "Do you remember that character of yours,
Spider-Man, that we both liked so much? "Why don't you do a series of him?"

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Huh?
Ben:
That's right. I mean - why? Because they haven't won a World Series in a century or so ? So what? They're here. Every April, they're here. At 1:05 or at 7:05, there is a game. And if it gets rained out, guess what? They make it up to you. Does anyone else in your life do that? The Red S

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Kris Lucas:
Why can't I do the things I want to do? There's so much I know I'm capable of that I never actually do. Why is that?
Arlen Faber:
The trick is to realize that you're always doing what you want to do... always. Nobody's making you do anything. Once y

S01 • E01  - 00:29
True Detective • 2014 • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Marie must have loved it here. Yeah. HART: All this for her? WOMAN:
Danny loved her so much. We weren't her legal guardians, but she played here
all the time, more than her Mama's. HART: I can see why. What is it Dan has,
if you don't mind my asking? All they ever told us was

S50 • E08  - 01:02
Nova • 1974 • Season 50 • Episode 8

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r ofover 60 million tons of TNT and triggeringa series of tsunami waves that hit Tonga, Australia, Japan, and the Americas. Why had this volcano suddenlyproduced such an immense explosion? Why was it so much more powerful than the previous day'seruption? And is the volcano active enough to erupt again in the nearfuture?

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Oh, yes. Well, I knew somebody would be asking me for a credit line. I'm always stealing ideas without realizing it.
Kathy Lacey:
That's what makes your magazine so original.

S02 • E01  - 00:31
Evil • 2019 • Season 2 • Episode 1

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- — true. - You grew up in des moines, Iowa?
- True. At the age of 18,
you sold your soul to Satan? True. It must be so so ifficult
with your husband away all the time. You feel sad when people
around you are sad? False. - You like sunsets more than...

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It's called progress, not perfection. And it doesn't change the fact that I still live in this shitbowl.
Martha:
Hey, if you hate Fresno so much, why'd you come back?
Shannon:
Obviously, because I made a series of poor life decisions.

S09 • E15  - 00:33
Mysteries of the Abandoned • 2017 • Season 9 • Episode 15

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and tsunami. Balaroa lay far from
the deadly floodwaters, Balaroa lay far from
the deadly floodwaters, so many struggled
to understand why
it had been engulfed. Balaroa was built in the 1980s

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Besides, you don't want to be an orphan forever.
Amanda Lemmon: So adopt me, why don't you!
Diane Barrows:
They won't let me adopt you on my salary; besides, you deserve a mother *and* a father.

 - 00:06
Timecode • 2000

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Darren, why do they call it a budget?
Darren:
They call it a budget so you don't budge from it.

Scene Description:
a man is sitting in a car and a woman is sitting in the passenger seat.

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I'm going to ask you a series of questions and I want you to answer honestly. Has your recent alcohol intake increased?
David Abbott:
Yeah. So ?
Elizabeth Masterson:
So are you hearing voices or seeing things that aren't quite real?

 - 01:11
Maniac • 1980

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Right.
Anna D'Antoni: So , I should know what I'm doing.
Frank Zito:
I know, but to me things change. People die. But in a picture or painting, they're yours forever.

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Against "Infidelity 101"? We'll get killed.
Richard McCallister:
Well, we'll do better than we will with "Cheating Heart." You said so yourself, Lenny. "Sex will always beat disgusting foods. But in a fight between sex and sex, the sexier show will win," and they have the sexier show. Seems to me that the only way to counter them is

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All right, I'm gonna ask you a series of questions. I want you to answer honestly. Has your recent alcohol consumption increased?
David Abbott:
Yeah. So ?
Elizabeth Masterson:
So are you hearing voices or seeing things that aren't quite real to you?

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Slavoj Zizek: Joseph Stalin's favourite cinematic genre were musicals. Not only Hollywood musicals, but also Soviet musicals. There was a whole series of so -called kolkhoz musicals. Why? We should find this strange, Stalin who personifies communist austerity, terror and musicals. The answer again is the psychoanalytic notion of superego. Superego is not

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ngcalled vascular dementia, which is essentially acontinuous series of tiny strokes. Your brain closes down,gradually you lose words, you lose your memory, which for a writeris pretty much the point. So that's why I could finally writethe book, I think. I had to. And why, of course,it's my last novel.

 - 03:07
Rounders • 1998

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face up these are known as community cards everyone can use to make the best five card hand, the key to the game is playing the man, not the cards, there's no other game in which fortunes can change so much from hand to hand, a brilliant player can get a strong hand, crack go on tilt and lose his mind along with every chip in front of him, this is why The World Series of Poker is decided on a no li

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Older Norman:
[narrating]
My father looked at me for a long time, just looked at me and this was the last he and I ever said to me about Paul's death. Indirectly though, he was present in many of our ...

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ecause they just lay the eggs and fertilize them in the water. Humans can't do that because they don't live in the water. They have to - internalize the water. Therefore we have sex.
Beverly, Age 9: So you mean humans would have sex if they lived in the water?
Elliot, Age 9:
Well they'd have a kind of sex. The kind where you wouldn't have to touch each other.

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Weren't you the last one to use the bathroom?
Lisa: So ?
Vinny Gambini:
Well, did you use the faucet?

 - 01:10
Matilda • 1996

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Miss Honey:
Her life was good and happy. When she was just two years old, her mother died. Her father was a doctor, and he needed someone to look after things at home. So he invited the mother's stepsister to come and live with him. But the girl's aunt was a mean person, who treated the girl very badly.
Matilda:
The Trunchbull.

S01 • E02  - 00:36
Marvel's Daredevil • 2015 • Season 1 • Episode 2

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The wound on your side... knife? Probably. Ah! - - I think I got the bleeding stopped, but I can't tell how bad it is internallywithout a full series of X-rays, so ... No. No hospitals. This is my night off. I'm really not looking forsome guy to die on my couch. Are you a doctor? Something like that. Most people, they finda bleeding masked man in the garbage...

 - 00:25
Speedway • 1968

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don't mind. Why I wouldn't even want you to stay here. Unless, you - wanted to. It must be a decision of your own free will and accord.
Dumb Blonde:
You're really very nice. Most fellows wouldn't be so considerate. They generally fight me!
[Kenny proceeds to trick her into staying]

Scene Description:
a man in a suit and a woman in a yellow dress is sitting in front of a man.

S01 • E16  - 01:02
Lost • 2004 • Season 1 • Episode 16

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hy the soxwill never win the series. What's that? What'd you just say? I said that's why the Red Soxwill never win the series. What's that supposed to mean? It's just somethingmy father used to say so so e could go through lifeknowing that people hated him. Instead of taking responsibility for it,he just put it on fate. Said he was made that way. Your daddy, he a doctor too?

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Slavoj Zizek:
Joseph Stalin's favourite cinematic genre were musicals. Not only Hollywood musicals, but also Soviet musicals. There was a whole series of so -called kolkhoz musicals. Why? We should find this strange, Stalin who personifies communist austerity, terror and musicals. The answer again is the psychoanalytic notion of superego. Superego is not

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u see there are no set rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, "If I follow these rules, I will be safe."
Oskar Schindler:
He won't shoot you because he enjoys you too much. He enjoys you so much he won't even let you wear the star. He doesn't want anyone to know it's a Jew he's enjoying. He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was just one of a series neit

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Slavoj Zizek:
disappears from our world. When you go to the toilet, shit disappears. You flush it. Of course, rationally, you know it's there, in canalization and so on, but at a certain level of your most elementary experience, it disappears from your world. But, the problem is, that trash doesn't disappear. I think ecology, the way we approach ecological proble

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three, and I suppose Dad did the best he could. Instead of Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Dad was a Yankees fan then, so of course I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about. We did. And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home

S02 • E09  - 00:26
Batman: The Animated Series • 1992 • Season 2 • Episode 9

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Extremely deadly. - You're certain it was Ra's Al Ghul?
- None other. But I thought he died
in the Pit months ago. So did I. That piece of papyrus is obviously
very important to him. - I have to find out why.
- Where are you off to now? Just in case the stockholders ask. Gibraltar. There's someone

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two people are standing in front of a screen that says " dc " on it.

 - 00:35
2010 • 1984

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I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
Dr. Vasili Orlov:
The 9000 series uses holographic memories, so chronological erasures would not work.
Chandra:
I made a tapeworm.

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Spine. A frigid bamboo forest guarded by exceptionally large warriors and their giant axes. Fourth, Fang, our fiercest enemy. A nation protected by angry assassins and their even angrier cats. Okay, so we're gonna need some crossbows and catapults, and... Ooh! What about flaming catapults?
Benja:
Or, how about shrimp paste from Tail, lemon grass from Talon, bamboo shoots from spine, chilies from F

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a map that has the word spine on it

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No, it's brilliant. Theoretically, anyway. A series of transfusionsto try and purify your blood. And my soul with it. I should warn you, Barnabas,there's a slight chance it won't work. It isn't...

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er problems.
Jeremy Rifkin:
It is a silly product. The industrial world is awash in milk. We're overproducing milk. We actually have governments around the world who pay farmers not to produce milk. So the first product Monsanto comes up with is a product that produces more of what we don't need.
Steve Wilson:
But the problem was that use of the artificial hormone caused all kinds of problems for

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Adm. Dean Winslow: So , how do you like your boat?
Lt. Cmdr Dodge:
It's a complete piece of...

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To save our relationship! You told me that desire would turn to pity and pity to hate. And - I did feel desire last night.
David Sloane: So you let another man make love to you?
Carol Corman:
I was only fighting for our happiness. I didn't want to ever hate you.

Scene Description:
a man talking to a woman in a living room.

S06 • E01  - 00:48
Teen Wolf • 2011 • Season 6 • Episode 1

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sort ofsupernatural metal detector. Okay, it is way more often than that. You can't tell methat you think this is just some series ofimpossible coincidences? What I'm saying is maybethat wouldn't be so bad.

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Go on a date with me. You're heavily sedated. Come on, it's... it's one date.Just do it. Why? So I can wear makeupand act perfect all night? Yeah. I'll pick you up, and we can talkabout our favorite books and our favorite TV shows. I'll pay for everything,and you can reward me with an over-the-j

S01 • E17  - 00:47
Two and a Half Men • 2003 • Season 1 • Episode 17

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be a full-time parent. This isn't about what I want.This is about what you want, - and you don't want me to have Jake.- What? Nothing. Why'd you say my name? Get over yourself, no one said your name. So what's wrong with me? Charlie, you're a great uncle.You're there for all the fun stuff. I don't think you're up to the hard workof being a full-time parent to Jake. - What?- Nothing. Nothing.

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What happened? You gotta keep holding it downor else it'll eject. That thing eats tapes like popcorn. You think your guys can digitize it, so we can scan it properly? Yeah, I think we can do that. I got it. You know, all these statuesthat you see around here, they are all straight out of his series "TheMenagerie Tragedy" trilogy, pretty co

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Sir Mark Moody-Stuart:
People accuse us of only paying attention to the economic leg, because they think that's what a business person's mindset is, it's just money. And it's not so , because we, as business people, know that we need to certainly address the environment, but also we need to be seen as constructive members of society.
Michael Moore:
There are companies that do go

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but -- why, exactly, are we here?Zed:Son?1st Lt. Jake Jensen: 2nd Lieutenant Jensen. West Point graduate with honours. We're here because you want the best of the best of the best, sir!Jay:Zed:What's so funny, Edwards?Jay:Your boy, Captain America, here. "The best of the best of the best, sir!" "With honours." He's just really excited, and he has no clue why we're here. That's very funny to me. Y'al

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ers:
[addressing Congress]
... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!

Scene Description:
a pepsi logo is on the wall behind a podium.

S01 • E07  - 00:34
Goblin • 2016 • Season 1 • Episode 7

Transcript:
너 그런 얘기 막... 아무한테나 입맞춤 얘기 막, 어?그런 애였니? 저 얘기 안 했는데요방금 아저씨가 했는데요 하려고 했던 거 아니야? 안 하려고 했는데요? 입맞춤을 했어? 해도 제 얘기 하는 건데아저씨가 왜 난리세요? 엄밀히 이건 제 입맞춤인데 야, 입맞춤에네 거, 내 거가 어디 있어? 있다 쳐도 반은 내 거지 아, 알았어요, 반 가져요, 그럼 됐어,...

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ighten up my day/Only a woman/Can touch me the right way/Only a woman/Is allowed to touch me there/All I ask is that you're a woman/I like rain, I like ham/I like you/You're around, you're right here/ So you'll do/I'm gonna tell you how much I love your mind/But it simply isn't true/Only a woman/Can brighten up my day/Only a woman/Can touch me the right way/Only a woman/Is allowed to do what you're d

Scene Description:
an ad for art directors that has been written on it.

S01 • E12  - 00:52
Doctor Who • 2005 • Season 1 • Episode 12

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With our force field, they can'tblast us out of the sky, but thatdoesn't stop the Daleks invading. Do they know about the delta wave?They'll have worked it out. They wanna stop the Doctor, so they've got to get to level 500. I can concentrate the extrapolatoron the top six levels, 500 to 495, so they'll penetrate the stationbelow that, at level 494,and fight their way up. Who are they fig

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हमारी फेक करेंसी का जितना भी रॉ मटेरियल है, वो इसी कंपनी से पाकिस्तान जाता है, इसीलिए जो क्वालिटी है वो बिल्कुल असली जैसी है। पर उनको वो प्लेट्स कहाँ से मिली? जनवरी 2007 में एमजी 2005 नोटों की सीरीज...

S01 • E14  - 00:49
Blindspot • 2015 • Season 1 • Episode 14

Transcript:
Previously on "Blindspot"... The FBI's New Yorkoffice has been compromised. Miss Doe, Agent Zapata,Assistant Director Mayfair... they all had a number ofinconsistencies on their polygraphs. I have...

S02 • E08  - 00:44
Tell Me Lies • 2022 • Season 2 • Episode 8

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t then you need to be fair. You came to the barlooking for me that night. And then, you came to my officeand asked me to kiss you. And then, when I told you it wasa bad idea, you showed up at my car. So , I'm sorry. No one did anything to you.You made a series of choices. I never would've agreed to thisif I knew what it actually was. I-I thought that it was something special. It was special. Somethin

S01 • E08  - 01:02
Can This Love Be Translated? • 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 8

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3,000불짜리 와인에쇼핑에 호텔 스위트룸까지 남이 번 돈 막 쓰네? 내 덕에 번 돈이거든? 봉주르 그건 프랑스어예요, 뜻도 안 맞고 얘가 무식한 거거든? 어쨌든 능력치가 차무희 씨랑비슷하다니까 다행이네 도라미라고 해서영화에서 본 것처럼 뭐 대단한 건가 했는데 '봉주르'는 몰라도 여기서는 이거랑 이것만 있으면 다 돼 뭐, 슈퍼히어로처럼도라미 무찌르러 온...