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Emerson: The line between ambition and obsession can be much thinner than one might imagine. You would be well served to look down and see exactly where you are standing.
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[first lines]
Conrad Hartman: Dad, I caved on the shirt, I'm not wearing the tie.
George Hartman: A young man in a tie makes a statement.
Conrad Hartman: What, that my father dresses me in the morning?
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George Hartman: Feckless? Let me guess, you're a high school English teacher.
Edith Martin: Wrong. How 'bout you? Wait, let me guess, let me guess. Are you a Brooks Brothers model?
George Hartman: I'm a cardiac surgeon. I was speaking with a patient.
Edith Martin: Hmm, so you can fix a heart over the phone?
George Hartman: Depends on the data plan.
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George Hartman: Your girl seemed very determined.
Edith Martin: Audrey. Yeah, I named her after Audrey Hepburn, but it was a serious miscalculation. I should have named her Benito.
George Hartman: A smartphone fascist.
Edith Martin: If Audrey had to give up either her phone or her kidney, she'd be on dialysis. I'm sure of it.
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Audrey Martin: So, what are you going to study?
Conrad Hartman: I'm just keeping my options open.
Audrey Martin: Mmm, yeah, that's a really strong department.
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George Hartman: We came in the wrong door.
Professor Riley: There are no wrong doors. All the world's a stage.
George Hartman: Not in my world.
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Conrad Hartman: What's the rush?
Audrey Martin: In case you haven't noticed, I'm a now kind of girl.
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Travis: It's okay, George. I still respect you.
Daphne: Yeah, I respect you too, George. Ya know, I'd let you dig around in my chest. Of course not today, but...
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George Hartman: The ball sack is life.
Daphne: The ball sack is life.
Travis: The ball sack is life.
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Edith Martin: I thought you *fixed* hearts.
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[last lines]
Conrad Hartman: You were right, Middleton's not so bad.
George Hartman: Let's take the long way home.
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George Hartman: Put on the tie or we're having a sex talk.
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Edith Martin: [putting a third apple in her purse] I hear they keep the doctor away.
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George Hartman: What constitutes high end children's furniture?
Edith Martin: It being in my store.
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Emerson: College should not necessarily be about narrowing your focus, it's about broadening your experience.
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Edith Martin: [departing from George] I thought you fixed hearts.
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Edith Martin: We're gonna be okay.
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Boneyard Sims: [raising a can of beer to his young visitor] Slonge.
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Justin: After telling the tour that a Lewis Carroll manuscript was on display at the library Justin continues... you know, a lot of really cool stuff happens here. Um, just this past weekend "Snatches of Pink" played a free concert right here on the quad.
George Hartman: Justin?
Justin: Hmm?
George Hartman: On a scale of 1 to 10 could you rate the effect on your life respectively of the visiting manuscript versus the "Snatches of Pink" concert?
Justin: The "Snatches" were tight, George.
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