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Drunk Guy at Bar: Oh, well, jeez, let's see, um... You don't buy as many products, you're not paying as much sales tax, some of you aren't even paying any income tax. I mean, you're not really participating in our economy, are you?
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Ngoc Lan Tran: When you know death comes soon, you look around things more close.
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Paul Safranek: He never struck me as the kind of guy who'd go get small. Wow!
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Drunk Guy at Bar: Can I get a normal-sized beer for a normal-sized guy?
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Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: Nature is such a patient sculptor - grinding a tiny bit each day slowly, slowly for thousands of years to make such a supremely beautiful thing.
[overcome with sadness]
Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: What a waste. What a dreadful waste.
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Dusan Mirkovic: Friends tell friends the truth. Okay, maybe sometimes I'm a little bit asshole, but the world needs assholes. Otherwise where would shit go out.
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Ngoc Lan Tran: Other night on boat, what kind of fuck you give me?
Paul Safranek: What?
Ngoc Lan Tran: What kind of fuck you give me?
Paul Safranek: What kind? I don't...
Ngoc Lan Tran: American people, eight kind of fuck. Love fuck, hate fuck, sex-only fuck, break-up fuck, make-up fuck, drunk fuck, buddy fuck, pity fuck.
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[first lines]
Dr. Andreas Jacobsen: [in Danish to technician who has rushed into his office] Yes, Jørgen?
Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: [in Norwegian] We have it... Andreas, we have it... It works!
[the embrace]
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Paul Safranek: If I don't do this, who am I? I mean, really. Who am I?
Ngoc Lan Tran: You Paul Safranek. You good man!
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Dusan Mirkovic: Yes, maybe I am a little bit asshole, but the world needs assholes. Otherwise where would the shit go out?
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Paul Safranek: [Paul is stoned out of his mind after taking a drug at a party. He walks up behind a random man and announces this to him] I'm gonna take off my shoes!
[the next shot shows him dancing barefoot on the dance floor]
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Paul Safranek: You're upset? You're upset? I'M THE ONE WHO'S FIVE FUCKING INCHES TALL!
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Extended Reading
Director: Alexander Payne
Language: English,Spanish,Norwegian,French,Korean,Greek,Vietnamese Release date: December 22, 2017