A professional (say, an airline pilot) needs all the help they can get standing up to authority (say, the president of a nation-state). This is especially true in life-or-death situations. Threats, distortions, and distractions simply drain energy from the task at hand. A person can learn and understand how to repel attacks on their instincts and better judgment with simplicity, sincerity, and certainty — In all kinds of weather, in all places, day or night! (–Source: taxi1010.com stargate79)

"You're using undue familiarity."
—CUT BACK!
—People will not give up being big shots – So cheap, huh? – The only thing that cures mental illness is air and liberty – I think it's great for the kids.

"If someone decides to become a pilot, he cannot be fearful – After returning to the country, we shall deal with this matter." (–Polish president Lech Kaczynski, to a pilot who defied him during a flight prior to the fatal plane crash in Russia on April 10, 2010, who on that earlier occasion diverted the flight to a safer airport, as reported in the Polish newspaper Dziennik)
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—It's pretty easy – Let the facts speak for themselves ... We want someone who can hit the ground running!

"If you're going to tell me how to drive, get out of the car."
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—The time for that hasn't come.

"Can't you get one bigger?" [Your really big pickup truck]
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—Well, you could dream.

["What should I wear?"] "Nothing outlandish."
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—All I need is a rose in my hair – Then the dollars will follow that.

"The plaintive story of Michael's unhappy marriage to a once-wild woman is all but buried under the movie's unsavory portrait of shamefaced middle-aged men drooling over underage nubile flesh." (–Stephen Holden, "The Babysitters," NYT, May 9, 2008)
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—This is what I can't figure out – I must have done something wrong – Maybe I played naked hockey.

"Mr. Scott, for his part, shows a borderline creepy fondness for filming [little girls] in bathing suits."
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—Don't twist it too much.

"What did they get you for?"
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—Magnetism.

"Your ideas are increasingly irrelevant."
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—For what I do, it's perfect.

"Go step in front of a cement mixer, okay?"
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—Who would want to run around in the street for nothing?

"I really don't like it when you keep using the word, like."
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—That's just part of the turnover ... It's like worms on a shovel.

"We could live together twenty years, and at the end not understand a word the other is saying."
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—David Juda says, "With me, what you get is what you see, but what you see is never all of me."

["No one is doing any research on deep-sea living."] "Why don't you get to work on it?"
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—Off limits.

"Hello, sir, can you get me a black?" [A street person, shadowing you, coming in from the corner of your eye]
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—I'm sorry, I can't – I don't want to – What if they find out I'm not crazy?

"He appears! Did you mentally transport yourself?"
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—I said the magic words!

"Get a brain."
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—This is my inheritance from my mother – I know the worst thing to say to someone.

"I'm afraid to ask."
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—What do you think it is?

"You need to check your attitude."
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—I think it gets hotter as it goes along.

"I don't like either of your attitudes."
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—Just have fun and make sense out of everything.

[Someone bugging you]
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—It's been going on for thousands of years.

"I'm a taxi driver."
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—The better you are at something, the more you like it.

"We can't take you anywhere in public."
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—What a drag.

"He's unnoticeable." [Speaking about the man she's with]
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—Against the background of whatever else there is.

"Will you quit staring at me, please?"
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—It's a sin.

"Don't touch me! I'm ticklish!"
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—Those could be your dying words!

"You flunked!"
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—Getting stomped!

"Last year [Senator Obama] spoke about his affinity for Reinhold Niebuhr, and their shared awareness that history is tragic and ironic and every political choice is tainted in some way. ¶ But he has grown accustomed to putting on this sort of saccharine show for the rock concert masses, and in Berlin his act jumped the shark. His words drift far from reality, and not only when talking about the Senate Banking Committee. His Berlin Victory Column treacle would have made Niebuhr sick to his stomach. ¶ Obama has benefited from a week of good images. But substantively, optimism without reality isn't eloquence. It's just Disney." (–David Brooks, "Playing Innocent Abroad," NYT, July 25, 2008)
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—Our accountant shredded my homework.

"What did Bruce think?"
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—He's the quiet, mysterious kind.