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{{quote|'''Doctor:''' 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!<br /> |
{{quote|'''Doctor:''' 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!<br /> |
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'''Daleks:''' But you have no weapons, no defences, '''no plan'''!<br /> |
'''Daleks:''' But you have no weapons, no defences, '''no plan'''!<br /> |
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'''Doctor:''' Yeah, and doesn't that scare you to death?|'''[[Doctor Who |
'''Doctor:''' Yeah, and doesn't that scare you to death?|'''[[Doctor Who|The Ninth Doctor]]''' vs. the Daleks, "Bad Wolf"}} |
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{{quote|'''Mickey:''' You're just making this up as you go along!<br /> |
{{quote|'''Mickey:''' You're just making this up as you go along!<br /> |
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'''Doctor:''' [[Try Not to Die|Not dying.]] See? Fine.|"Let's Kill Hitler"}} |
'''Doctor:''' [[Try Not to Die|Not dying.]] See? Fine.|"Let's Kill Hitler"}} |
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{{quote|''"I'm a User. I'll improvise."''|'''Sam Flynn''', ''[[Tron |
{{quote|''"I'm a User. I'll improvise."''|'''Sam Flynn''', ''[[Tron: Legacy]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"[[The Plan|Do you think he plans it all out]], [[Lampshade Hanging|or just makes it up as he goes along]]?"''|'''Bosun''', on [[Crazy Awesome|Jack Sparrow]], ''[[ |
{{quote|''"[[The Plan|Do you think he plans it all out]], [[Lampshade Hanging|or just makes it up as he goes along]]?"''|'''Bosun''', on [[Crazy Awesome|Jack Sparrow]], ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End''}} |
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{{quote|'''Indy:''' Get back to Cairo. Get us some transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.<br /> |
{{quote|'''Indy:''' Get back to Cairo. Get us some transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.<br /> |
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'''Sallah:''' How?<br /> |
'''Sallah:''' How?<br /> |
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'''Indy:''' ''(mumbling)'' I don't know. I'm making this up as I go.|''[[ |
'''Indy:''' ''(mumbling)'' I don't know. I'm making this up as I go.|''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Harry:''' So what do we do if they switch the patrols?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Harry:''' So what do we do if they switch the patrols?<br /> |
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{{quote|''"The plan is... to make up the plan in the car."''|'''Nate''', ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Ho Ho Ho Job" }} |
{{quote|''"The plan is... to make up the plan in the car."''|'''Nate''', ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Ho Ho Ho Job" }} |
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{{quote|''"Here's the plan: I walk in, hit people in the face hard, we see how it goes from there."''|'''[[ |
{{quote|''"Here's the plan: I walk in, hit people in the face hard, we see how it goes from there."''|'''[[Angel]]''', ''She''}} |
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{{quote|'''Beckett:''' [[You're Insane!|You're mad]]!<br /> |
{{quote|'''Beckett:''' [[You're Insane!|You're mad]]!<br /> |
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'''Jack Sparrow:''' [[The Mad Hatter|Thank Goodness for that]] [[Genre Savvy|Because if I wasn't, this would probably never work]].|''[[ |
'''Jack Sparrow:''' [[The Mad Hatter|Thank Goodness for that]] [[Genre Savvy|Because if I wasn't, this would probably never work]].|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End''}} |
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{{quote|''"No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."''|'''Napoleon''', and [http://www.ptsdsupport.net/battle_M.html Murphy's Rules of Battle]}} |
{{quote|''"No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."''|'''Napoleon''', and [http://www.ptsdsupport.net/battle_M.html Murphy's Rules of Battle]}} |
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'''Dr Clef''': ...he did?<br /> |
'''Dr Clef''': ...he did?<br /> |
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'''Interviewer''': I have here a copy of Dr. Kondraki's termination procedure proposal. Step one is his plan to use cat urine and a pistol loaded with silver bullets. Backup plans two, three, four, and five are listed as, and I quote, "Wing It," "Make Something Up," "Cross That Bridge When I Come To It," and "Put My Head Between My Knees And Kiss My Ass Goodbye."<br /> |
'''Interviewer''': I have here a copy of Dr. Kondraki's termination procedure proposal. Step one is his plan to use cat urine and a pistol loaded with silver bullets. Backup plans two, three, four, and five are listed as, and I quote, "Wing It," "Make Something Up," "Cross That Bridge When I Come To It," and "Put My Head Between My Knees And Kiss My Ass Goodbye."<br /> |
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'''Dr Clef''': [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]|''The [[ |
'''Dr Clef''': [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]|''The [[SCP Foundation]]'', "[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/duke-till-dawn Duke 'till Dawn]"}} |
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{{quote|'''Mutt Williams:''' What's he gonna do now?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Mutt Williams:''' What's he gonna do now?<br /> |
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'''Marion Ravenwood:''' I don't think he plans that far ahead.|''[[Indiana Jones and |
'''Marion Ravenwood:''' I don't think he plans that far ahead.|''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' }} |
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{{quote|'''George:''' So, what's the plan, Harry?<br /> |
{{quote|'''George:''' So, what's the plan, Harry?<br /> |
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'''Fred:''' Just going to make it up as we go along, are we? My favorite kind.|''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]''}} |
'''Fred:''' Just going to make it up as we go along, are we? My favorite kind.|''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"Hermione, since when have any of our plans actually ''worked?'' We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."''|'''Harry''', lampshading it up in ''[[Harry Potter ( |
{{quote|''"Hermione, since when have any of our plans actually ''worked?'' We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."''|'''Harry''', lampshading it up in ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing?"''|'''John McClane''', while tying a fire hose around his waist, ''[[ |
{{quote|''"Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing?"''|'''John McClane''', while tying a fire hose around his waist, ''[[Die Hard]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"I'm just makin' it up as I go!"''|'''[[Deadpool]]'''}} |
{{quote|''"I'm just makin' it up as I go!"''|'''[[Deadpool]]'''}} |
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'''Quentyn:''' ''That was just one time!'' And there were extenuating circumstances ... okay, there was that other time with the gragum ... and, um, the wight-rats... ''<small>okay so maybe I do jump into things headfirst a lot....</small>''|''[[Tales of the Questor]]''}} |
'''Quentyn:''' ''That was just one time!'' And there were extenuating circumstances ... okay, there was that other time with the gragum ... and, um, the wight-rats... ''<small>okay so maybe I do jump into things headfirst a lot....</small>''|''[[Tales of the Questor]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"Plan...? Strategy...? Fuck that shit. Sitting around chatting? Is this any time for that?"''|'''Kaneda''' about to go into a fight in the ''[[ |
{{quote|''"Plan...? Strategy...? Fuck that shit. Sitting around chatting? Is this any time for that?"''|'''Kaneda''' about to go into a fight in the ''[[Akira]]'' [[Manga]]}} |
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{{quote|''"This is some rescue. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"''|'''Princess Leia''', ''[[ |
{{quote|''"This is some rescue. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"''|'''Princess Leia''', ''[[Star Wars]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Winston:''' W-what do we do now!?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Winston:''' W-what do we do now!?<br /> |
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'''Michael:''' Plan B!<br /> |
'''Michael:''' Plan B!<br /> |
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'''Winston:''' What's plan B?<br /> |
'''Winston:''' What's plan B?<br /> |
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'''Michael:''' I'm working on it...|''[[ |
'''Michael:''' I'm working on it...|''[[Burn Notice]]'' season 4 premier "Friends and Enemies".}} |
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Well, that seemed to go according to plan. In the end.<br /> |
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Well, that seemed to go according to plan. In the end.<br /> |
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'''Amy Pond:''' Do you even know what a plan is?|''[[ |
'''Amy Pond:''' Do you even know what a plan is?|''[[Doctor Who]]: The Adventure Game''}} |
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{{quote|'''Kotomine''': Such a shame. Have you really run out of plans so soon?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Kotomine''': Such a shame. Have you really run out of plans so soon?<br /> |
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'''Shirou''': Shut up! I never actually had a plan in the first place!|''[[ |
'''Shirou''': Shut up! I never actually had a plan in the first place!|''[[Fate/stay night]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Heavy''': DOCTOR, ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK!?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Heavy''': DOCTOR, ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK!?<br /> |
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'''Medic''': [[Evil Laugh|Ha ha!]] I HAVE ''NO'' IDEA!|''[[ |
'''Medic''': [[Evil Laugh|Ha ha!]] I HAVE ''NO'' IDEA!|''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': "Meet The Medic"}} |
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{{quote|'''Tigress''': What's your plan?<br /> |
{{quote|'''Tigress''': What's your plan?<br /> |
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{{quote|'''Leia:''' I hope you know what you're doing.<br /> |
{{quote|'''Leia:''' I hope you know what you're doing.<br /> |
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'''Han:''' Yeah, me too...|''[[ |
'''Han:''' Yeah, me too...|''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Church''': Okay. Well, I'm gonna go do whatever it is that fixes all this. Wish me luck, guys.<br /> |
{{quote|'''Church''': Okay. Well, I'm gonna go do whatever it is that fixes all this. Wish me luck, guys.<br /> |
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'''Church''': You know what? I'm just gonna go free Tex and wing it. Cause every time I've made a plan, it's fallen apart. I figure, why not just improvise?|'''''[[Red vs. Blue]]''''' ({{spoiler|It works.}})}} |
'''Church''': You know what? I'm just gonna go free Tex and wing it. Cause every time I've made a plan, it's fallen apart. I figure, why not just improvise?|'''''[[Red vs. Blue]]''''' ({{spoiler|It works.}})}} |
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{{quote|''"He... Kollberg, he's not smarter than you, Hari. Very few people are... He just... He goes for what he wants, y'know? He's always shaving the odds, always taking another baby step toward where he wants to go, even when he doesn't know how it'll all pull together in the end... When you do that long enough, hard enough, eventually things fall into place and... and you look like a genius, when you never really planned anything..."''|Duncan Michaelson, ''[[The Acts of Caine |
{{quote|''"He... Kollberg, he's not smarter than you, Hari. Very few people are... He just... He goes for what he wants, y'know? He's always shaving the odds, always taking another baby step toward where he wants to go, even when he doesn't know how it'll all pull together in the end... When you do that long enough, hard enough, eventually things fall into place and... and you look like a genius, when you never really planned anything..."''|Duncan Michaelson, ''[[The Acts of Caine|Heroes Die]]''}} |
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{{quote|''"Make good in every situation."''|'''Longshanks''', ''[[Braveheart]]''}} |
{{quote|''"Make good in every situation."''|'''Longshanks''', ''[[Braveheart]]''}} |
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{{quote|'''Kouji''': There's no choice but for me to go and take it back!<br /> |
{{quote|'''Kouji''': There's no choice but for me to go and take it back!<br /> |
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'''Sayaka''': But you don't even know what the enemy is...!<br /> |
'''Sayaka''': But you don't even know what the enemy is...!<br /> |
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'''Kouji''': I'll find out along the way!|''[[ |
'''Kouji''': I'll find out along the way!|''[[Mazinger Z]]: Relic of Terror''}} |
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{{quote|Harry couldn't claim it had all gone just as planned. It had all gone just as completely made up on the spot.|[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]}} |
{{quote|Harry couldn't claim it had all gone just as planned. It had all gone just as completely made up on the spot.|[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]}} |
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''(Finn slides up the wall and evades the charging ice bull)''<br /> |
''(Finn slides up the wall and evades the charging ice bull)''<br /> |
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'''NEPTR:''' That was a great plan!<br /> |
'''NEPTR:''' That was a great plan!<br /> |
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'''Finn:''' Nah, that wasn't a part of my plan. We got lucky.|''[[ |
'''Finn:''' Nah, that wasn't a part of my plan. We got lucky.|''[[Adventure Time]]''}} |
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Revision as of 12:07, 8 April 2014
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Doctor: 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky! —The Ninth Doctor vs. the Daleks, "Bad Wolf"
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Mickey: You're just making this up as you go along! —"The Age of Steel"
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Martha: (hiding from a monster with the Doctor) You mean you don't have a plan? —"The Lazarus Experiment"
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Rory: He'll be fine! He's a Time Lord! —"The Doctor's Wife"
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Doctor: I'm dying. But I've got a plan. —"Let's Kill Hitler"
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"I'm a User. I'll improvise."
—Sam Flynn, Tron: Legacy
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"Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"
—Bosun, on Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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Indy: Get back to Cairo. Get us some transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck. |
Elena: I hope you know what you're doing. |
Elena: And then what? —Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, in which Nate boils this trope down to its essence.
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"The plan is... to make up the plan in the car."
—Nate, Leverage, "The Ho Ho Ho Job"
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"Here's the plan: I walk in, hit people in the face hard, we see how it goes from there."
—Angel, She
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Beckett: You're mad! —Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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"No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."
—Napoleon, and Murphy's Rules of Battle
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Dr Clef: I can't really see that Dr Kondraki made any mistakes in his termination procedure up to this point, no. —The SCP Foundation, "Duke 'till Dawn"
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Mutt Williams: What's he gonna do now? |
George: So, what's the plan, Harry? |
"Hermione, since when have any of our plans actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."
—Harry, lampshading it up in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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"Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing?"
—John McClane, while tying a fire hose around his waist, Die Hard
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"I'm just makin' it up as I go!"
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Calvin: Last night. The game. You were surrounded. What'd you do? |
Oar: Tell me your plan and let me judge for myself. |
Quentyn: You think I'm just going to jump in, willy nilly, without a plan...? |
"This is some rescue. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"
—Princess Leia, Star Wars
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Winston: W-what do we do now!? —Burn Notice season 4 premier "Friends and Enemies".
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Max: Uh, what's going on here? Do we have a plan? —Burn Notice season 5 premier "Company Man".
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Roxanne: So what's the plan? |
Always be prepared to improvise, Freckle. That's rule number one for jazz players and vigilantes alike.
—Rocky Rickaby, Lackadaisy
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Axel: I've been in loads of final battles, each one more final than the last. All of them involved complicated plans that failed miserably. So this time, I'm just going to wing it! —Ansem Retort Strip #80
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"You know my strategy... speak first, think later!"
—Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Justice For All
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The Doctor: Well, that seemed to go according to plan. In the end. —Doctor Who: The Adventure Game
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Kotomine: Such a shame. Have you really run out of plans so soon? |
Heavy: DOCTOR, ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK!? —Team Fortress 2: "Meet The Medic"
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Tigress: What's your plan? |
Leia: I hope you know what you're doing. |
Church: Okay. Well, I'm gonna go do whatever it is that fixes all this. Wish me luck, guys. —Red vs. Blue (It works.)
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"He... Kollberg, he's not smarter than you, Hari. Very few people are... He just... He goes for what he wants, y'know? He's always shaving the odds, always taking another baby step toward where he wants to go, even when he doesn't know how it'll all pull together in the end... When you do that long enough, hard enough, eventually things fall into place and... and you look like a genius, when you never really planned anything..."
—Duncan Michaelson, Heroes Die
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"Make good in every situation."
—Longshanks, Braveheart
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Plan A is "Take it as it comes," Plan B is "First come, first served," and Plan C is "Wing it."
—Spike Spiegel explains his philosophy of bounty-hunting.
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Kouji: There's no choice but for me to go and take it back! —Mazinger Z: Relic of Terror
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Harry couldn't claim it had all gone just as planned. It had all gone just as completely made up on the spot.
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Finn: I have a sick plan! |