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{{quote|''"The scene's about the characters, and it's a nice scene, but I'm not here to accentuate what's nice."''|'''D. R. McLeod''', [[The Agony Booth]]'s [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Hulk_2003.aspx recap of] ''[[Hulk (film)|Hulk]] (2003)''}}
{{quote|'''Amanda Honeydew:''' Gosh, this place looks so tiny! I remember it was huge!
'''Enid Nightshade:''' It's quite small, actually.
'''Jadu Wali:''' Miniscule.
'''Ruby Cherrytree:''' Falling apart, most of it.
'''Enid Nightshade:''' There's only parts worth living in. You have to really squash up.
'''Mr. Hallow:''' Now girls, we're here to celebrate the castle's anniversary not exaggerate its shortcomings.|'''[[The Worst Witch]]''', "The Millennium Bug" (Season 2, Episode 13)}}
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{{quote|''"I know we mainly focused on the shitty aspects, but let me tell you, '''that's the name of the game'''."''|'''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''', [http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=3964 "DoubleVision Part 2, ColecoVision"]}}
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'''Cynic:''' Yeah, 'cause they're ''dead''. }}
{{quote|''"For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don't let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing. In this country where people love to be nonjudgmental when they can be, which translates as, on the whole, lenient, there are an awful lot of bubble reputations floating around that one wouldn't be doing one's job if one didn't itch to prick."''|'''Christopher Hitchens'''}}
{{quote|"So class, the question I have to ask you is, why are you all so jaded and negative? Almost all the time, I hear you guys griping about something and are almost ''always'' finding something to complain about. When I was your age, that was actually considered ''annoying''. What made the sudden change?"
"Things have changed since you were a kid, Professor '''[name censored]''', when you were a teen, being able to see the good in anything and anyone like Anne Frank or [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] was considered admirable and a genius. Even then, people wanted to look smart and mature, and they did so by acting like Anne Frank. Nowadays, the only thing that changed was how people view 'smart' or 'mature' as. Today, your intelligence and maturity is inversely proportional to your attitude rather than directly. Someone like Anne Frank or Pollyanna ''today'' would be assumed to be mentally retarded, immature, ignorant, or flamboyantly gay. I think you can blame shows like ''[[Daria]]'', ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', and ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' for instilling the image that smart people are ''always'' cynical, jaded, rude, and generally all around a 'Negative Nelly'."|An exchange that happened in a Philosophy class. }}
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