"Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them." - - Quark, 57th rule of acquisition "Free advice is seldom cheap" - - Quark, 59th rule of acquisition and one for the all statists "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies." - - Quark, 76th rule of acquisition and several for all voters: "Hear all, trust nothing." - - 190th rule of acquisition "Sometimes the only thing more dagerous than a problem is the answer." - - 208th rule of acquisition And a corollary about politicians and looters "You can't free a fish from water." - - Quark, 217th rule of acquisition
No speeches, but a couple of pithy lines from Working Girl's protagonist, Tess:
“I’m not going to spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up.”
“I read a lot of things. You never know where the big ideas could come from.”
I love this unheralded movie. And also, the Harrison Ford character turns out to be a man of high integrity. I also like the scene where his boss questions whether he really loves this girl or is it just his 'johnson' speaking."
It did over $100 million world box office revenue, was nominated for 6 oscars (Best Picture-losing to Rain Man, Best Director, Best Actress, and 2 Best Supporting actresses) and won the oscar for original song. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?... Far above average for a RomCom.
I guess it was more "heralded" than I thought. Well, it deserved it. Another great line went something like, "I've got a head for business and a body for sin."
I'd love to require all the candidates for president take an IQ test before being allowed to speak in any debate. I wonder which is higher, Trump's temperature or his IQ.
They are more objective information for voters than most of the smokescreen voters usually are subjected to. Its another indicator of just how honest Trump is in his public statements. He claims he has a high IQ but hasn't offered any details... like all Trump's proposals, lot of bluster and not much rational thought. Undoubtedly Trump took standardized tests but with his vanity and ego he would never admit he didn't score well.
Interesting that William Holden acted both points of view in 1954. In Sabrina he was learning from Bogart, and in Executive Suite he was teaching the same values playing the role of Don Walling.
Don't bother watching the 1995 remake of Sabrina with Harrison Ford. The 1954 version was a classic with Sabrina falling for a strong masculine character, but the later version changed the story to make Linus Larrabee a wimp. He "wins over" Sabrina by becoming a pathetic character. EDIT - the story change illustrates how hollywood "progressed" over those 4 decades
I don't have any "Films" in my cache but I was privileged to be a part of one at a company I worked for from start up. The main cog of which was moving on and I in his place and everyone else a move up to fill the slots. I don't remember the entire thing only his closing remarks of which I'll never forget and often share.
"Your people are only as good as you allow them to be" And that indeed was our recipe of success.
The thing I like about the pair of speeches is that they both do an excellent job of portraying opposite points of view -- neither character is a straw man.
Knowing Baldwin's political position makes his acting in GGR completely unbelieveble. I recall seeing the broadway play of GGR in the 80's, and finding it a disgusting waste of my time. The speech you refer to wasn't in the play. If it had been, it might have saved the play in my eyes, but I doubt it.
- - Quark, 57th rule of acquisition
"Free advice is seldom cheap"
- - Quark, 59th rule of acquisition
and one for the all statists
"Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies."
- - Quark, 76th rule of acquisition
and several for all voters:
"Hear all, trust nothing."
- - 190th rule of acquisition
"Sometimes the only thing more dagerous than a problem is the answer."
- - 208th rule of acquisition
And a corollary about politicians and looters
"You can't free a fish from water."
- - Quark, 217th rule of acquisition
“I’m not going to spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up.”
“I read a lot of things. You never know where the big ideas could come from.”
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?...
Far above average for a RomCom.
Her mother had that magic, too. (See The Birds and Marnie.)
I wonder which is higher, Trump's temperature or his IQ.
Its another indicator of just how honest Trump is in his public statements. He claims he has a high IQ but hasn't offered any details... like all Trump's proposals, lot of bluster and not much rational thought. Undoubtedly Trump took standardized tests but with his vanity and ego he would never admit he didn't score well.
Hard to pick but many of them are in one film. OPM.
I remember the short pithy lines far better than any long speeches bbut i'm sure some one will spark my memory circuits
Here is one of my favorites:
Executive Suites- Climatic Ending-1954
http://youtu.be/vcEOsGvT0qA
JUST REALIZED YOU GUYS HAD ALREADY MENTIONED THIS ONE!
(Edited for update)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Da1t...
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
EDIT - the story change illustrates how hollywood "progressed" over those 4 decades
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" -- Network
"... And these are pork-bellies, which is used to make bacon. Like you might find in a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich." -- Trading Places
I don't remember the entire thing only his closing remarks of which I'll never forget and often share.
"Your people are only as good as you allow them to be"
And that indeed was our recipe of success.
First by factory chairman Gregory Peck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJRhr...
Second by "Larry the Liquidator" Danny Divito:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxP...
The thing I like about the pair of speeches is that they both do an excellent job of portraying opposite points of view -- neither character is a straw man.
I recall seeing the broadway play of GGR in the 80's, and finding it a disgusting waste of my time.
The speech you refer to wasn't in the play. If it had been, it might have saved the play in my eyes, but I doubt it.