Boiler Room
Jim Young: [to the new recruits] They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
And he really, really, really means it.
Jim Young: [to the new recruits] And there is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless, that's it, I'm done.
The "brass balls" spiel.
Greg Weinstein: [during Seth's orientation] Now there's two rules you have to remember as a trainee, number one, we don't pitch the bitch here.
Seth Davis: What?
Greg Weinstein: We don't sell stock to women. I don't care who it is, we don't do it. Nancy Sinatra calls, you tell her you're sorry. They're a constant pain in the ass and you're never going to hear the end of it alright? They're going to call you every fucking day wanting to know why the stock is dropping and God forbid the stock should go up, you're going to hear from them every fucking 15 minutes. It's just not worth it, don't pitch the bitch.
The bastard!
Judge Marty Davis: [in a diner] I'm not your best friend. That's your mother's racket. I'm your father. I tell you when you screw up. What did you think I was gonna do? Pat you on the back for this casino idea? Tell you what a great entrepreneur you are? So what do you want me to do, Seth? I mean, my God, if I would have called my father to meet me for a cup of coffee to talk about my screw-ups, he probably would have laughed. We didn't have nice little chats about why I was a bad boy. I got smacked. And I didn't do it again. Much simpler.
Seth Davis: Look, you know, I'm just trying to restore what's left of our relationship. I mean...
Judge Marty Davis: Relationship? What the fuck are you talking about, relationship? What, are we dating? I'm not your girlfriend, Seth. I'm your father. Clean up you life, make an honest living, and then you and I can talk like normal people, all right?
Your father may have been different. Really, really different.
Seth Davis: [Narrating] Looking back the casino was the most legitimate business I had running, I looked my customers in the eye and I provided a service they wanted, now I don't even look my customers in the eye and I push them something they never asked for.
Then those he wiped out completely.
The Daily News telemarketer: [the Daily News telemarketer, over the phone, accidentally mispronouncing his name] Hi Mr. David, it's Ron from The Daily News, how you doing this morning?
Seth Davis: [correcting him] It's Davis and I'm not interested
The Daily News telemarketer: ok I'm sorry to have bothered you, have a nice day
Seth Davis: wait a minute, that's your pitch? You consider that a sales call?
The Daily News telemarketer: well, umm
Seth Davis: you know I get a call from you every Saturday and it's always the same half ass attempt, if you guys want to "close" me you should "sell" me.
The Daily News telemarketer: alright
Seth Davis: alright, start again.
The Daily News telemarketer: ok, it's Ron The Daily News, how you doing this morning?
Seth Davis: [amused] shitty, what'd you want?
The Daily News telemarketer: it's not what "I" want, it's what "you" want
Seth Davis: alright, now we're talking, what are you selling me?
The Daily News telemarketer: we're offering you a subscription to The Daily News at a substantially reduced price, we're trying to reach out to people who've never had home delivery before
Seth Davis: so, your basically everybody that already have a subscription is getting fucked on this one?
The Daily News telemarketer: yeah, I guess so
Seth Davis: ok I can handle that, ok tell me, why should I buy your paper? Why shouldn't I get The Times? or The Voice?
The Daily News telemarketer: Well, The Village Voice is free, if you want it, you should certainly pick it up, but The Daily News offers you something no other paper can: a real taste of New York, we have the best features, more photographs than any other papers in New York and we have the most reliable delivery in the city, now what'd you think?
Seth Davis: you know what I think? I think that was a sales call, good job buddy
The Daily News telemarketer: so, are you going to buy a subscription?
Seth Davis: [before immediately hanging up] No I already get The Times.
Next up: your pitch here.
Quote of the day
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Gaspar: Our indian slaves are useless. The changing climate kills them off like flies. Most of them die of colds. We don’t even have time to give them a Christian burial.
And this assumes Gaspar himself was what some here call a True Christian.
Aguirre: Perucho, don’t you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
And around and around they go.
Inez: You are our last hope.
Gasper: Thou lettest man flow on like a river and Thy years know no end. As for man his days are like grass, as a flower in the field so he blossoms. For when the wind passes over it and it’s gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. You know, my child, for the good of our Lord the Church was always on the side of the strong.
Now that is a True Christian, isn't it?
Perucho: La la la la la…la la la la la
Think Jaws here.
Aguirre [to Perucho]: That man is a head taller than me. That may change.
La la la la la…la la la la la
Gasper [to Runo]: Has this savage ever heard of our savior Jesus Christ? And of our mission to spread the true word of God? [to the Indian] This is the Bible. It contains the words of God that we preach to bring light into the darkness of your world [to Runo] Does he understand at all, that this book contains the Word of God? [to the Indian]: Take it in your hand, my son.
[the Indian brings the Bible to his ear to hear the Word of God]
Runo [translating]: He says, it doesn’t talk.
[the Indian drops the book]
Gasper: Kill him for blasphemy!
At play in the fields of the Lord?
Fernando: All the land to our left and all the land to our right now belongs to us. I solemnly and formally take possession of all this land. Our country is already six times larger than Spain, and everyday we drift makes it bigger.
Aguirre: Have you seen any solid ground that would support your weight?
Next up: Cortez the Killer.
Gaspar: Our indian slaves are useless. The changing climate kills them off like flies. Most of them die of colds. We don’t even have time to give them a Christian burial.
And this assumes Gaspar himself was what some here call a True Christian.
Aguirre: Perucho, don’t you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
And around and around they go.
Inez: You are our last hope.
Gasper: Thou lettest man flow on like a river and Thy years know no end. As for man his days are like grass, as a flower in the field so he blossoms. For when the wind passes over it and it’s gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. You know, my child, for the good of our Lord the Church was always on the side of the strong.
Now that is a True Christian, isn't it?
Perucho: La la la la la…la la la la la
Think Jaws here.
Aguirre [to Perucho]: That man is a head taller than me. That may change.
La la la la la…la la la la la
Gasper [to Runo]: Has this savage ever heard of our savior Jesus Christ? And of our mission to spread the true word of God? [to the Indian] This is the Bible. It contains the words of God that we preach to bring light into the darkness of your world [to Runo] Does he understand at all, that this book contains the Word of God? [to the Indian]: Take it in your hand, my son.
[the Indian brings the Bible to his ear to hear the Word of God]
Runo [translating]: He says, it doesn’t talk.
[the Indian drops the book]
Gasper: Kill him for blasphemy!
At play in the fields of the Lord?
Fernando: All the land to our left and all the land to our right now belongs to us. I solemnly and formally take possession of all this land. Our country is already six times larger than Spain, and everyday we drift makes it bigger.
Aguirre: Have you seen any solid ground that would support your weight?
Next up: Cortez the Killer.
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Madness
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
And the thoughts posted by the madmen here?
“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...” Sanhita Baruah
Click?
“Madness is a matter of perspective...” Samantha Shannon
Tell that to the brain tumor?
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” Nathaniel Lee
Pick three:
1] Donald Trump
2] Joe Biden
3] Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss -- and grow.” Nathan Filer
Got a few like that here, of course.
“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it...he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.” Donald Barthelme
No, really, what's the scoop here?
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
And the thoughts posted by the madmen here?
“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...” Sanhita Baruah
Click?
“Madness is a matter of perspective...” Samantha Shannon
Tell that to the brain tumor?
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” Nathaniel Lee
Pick three:
1] Donald Trump
2] Joe Biden
3] Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss -- and grow.” Nathan Filer
Got a few like that here, of course.
“He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it...he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.” Donald Barthelme
No, really, what's the scoop here?
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Five Easy Pieces
Bobby: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.
Waitress: [points at his menu] No substitutions.
Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two, a plain omelette, it comes with cottage fries and rolls.
Bobby: Yeah, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.
Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind
Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you an English muffin or a coffee roll.
Bobby: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?
Palm Apodaca: Hey, mac...
Bobby: Shut up.
[to the waitress]
Bobby: You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?
Waitress: I don't make the rules.
Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A number two, a chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a cheque for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.
[Palm Apodaca sniggers]
Waitress: [points at a sign behind her] You see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave! I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm!
Bobby: You see this sign?
[he sweeps all the glasses off the table onto the floor]
So, is he the asshole here or not?
Catherine: You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something --- how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?
What we have here is "failure to communicate".
Elton: Well, what if she was, Bob? I can't see nothin' so bad in that. Well, what if I were to let you in on a little secret that she is? That's right. She told me. She's all torn up about it, too, which I hate to see. Well hell, isn't it somethin' you just have to face up to? I tell ya, somewhere along the line, you even get to likin' the whole idea. When Stoney first give me the news, I coulda shit!
[Bobby spits out his food and throws down his food in disgust]
Elton: Well isn't that nice?
Bobby: It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.
What we have here is "failure to communicate".
Well, given an entirely different context, of course.
Bobby: [finally talking with his paralyzed father] I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean... Most of it doesn't add up to much that I could relate as a way of life that you'd approve of... I'd like to be able to tell you why, but I don't really... I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I'm looking... for auspicious beginnings, I guess... I'm trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation... My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn't be talking. That's pretty much how it got to be before... I left... Are you all right? I don't know what to say
[begins sobbing]
Bobby: Tita suggested that we try to...I don't know. I think that she... seems to feel we've got... some understanding to reach... She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with each other to begin with... The best that I can do, is apologize.
[regaining his composure]
Bobby: We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway...
[after a long pause]
Bobby: I'm sorry it didn't work out.
And "in the moment", he might have actually meant it.
Bobby: What else do you do?
Catherine: Well, there's fishing, boating, and concerts on the mainland.
[Laughs]
Catherine: I feel funny telling you this. This is really your home. You probably know better than I what there is to do.
Bobby: Nothing.
Catherine: Nothing?
Bobby: Nothing.
Catherine: Well, it must be very boring for you here.
Bobby: That's right.
Catherine: I find that very hard to comprehend. I don't think I've ever been bored. Excuse me.
Too close to call?
Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says,
[grabs her cheeks with both her hands]
Betty: "You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes,
[presses one finger on her chin]
Betty: "Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going,
[holds one hand over her chin]
Betty: "Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me."
One of the five easy pieces, perhaps?
Bobby: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.
Waitress: [points at his menu] No substitutions.
Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two, a plain omelette, it comes with cottage fries and rolls.
Bobby: Yeah, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.
Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind
Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you an English muffin or a coffee roll.
Bobby: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?
Palm Apodaca: Hey, mac...
Bobby: Shut up.
[to the waitress]
Bobby: You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?
Waitress: I don't make the rules.
Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A number two, a chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a cheque for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.
[Palm Apodaca sniggers]
Waitress: [points at a sign behind her] You see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave! I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm!
Bobby: You see this sign?
[he sweeps all the glasses off the table onto the floor]
So, is he the asshole here or not?
Catherine: You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something --- how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?
What we have here is "failure to communicate".
Elton: Well, what if she was, Bob? I can't see nothin' so bad in that. Well, what if I were to let you in on a little secret that she is? That's right. She told me. She's all torn up about it, too, which I hate to see. Well hell, isn't it somethin' you just have to face up to? I tell ya, somewhere along the line, you even get to likin' the whole idea. When Stoney first give me the news, I coulda shit!
[Bobby spits out his food and throws down his food in disgust]
Elton: Well isn't that nice?
Bobby: It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.
What we have here is "failure to communicate".
Well, given an entirely different context, of course.
Bobby: [finally talking with his paralyzed father] I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean... Most of it doesn't add up to much that I could relate as a way of life that you'd approve of... I'd like to be able to tell you why, but I don't really... I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I'm looking... for auspicious beginnings, I guess... I'm trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation... My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn't be talking. That's pretty much how it got to be before... I left... Are you all right? I don't know what to say
[begins sobbing]
Bobby: Tita suggested that we try to...I don't know. I think that she... seems to feel we've got... some understanding to reach... She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with each other to begin with... The best that I can do, is apologize.
[regaining his composure]
Bobby: We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway...
[after a long pause]
Bobby: I'm sorry it didn't work out.
And "in the moment", he might have actually meant it.
Bobby: What else do you do?
Catherine: Well, there's fishing, boating, and concerts on the mainland.
[Laughs]
Catherine: I feel funny telling you this. This is really your home. You probably know better than I what there is to do.
Bobby: Nothing.
Catherine: Nothing?
Bobby: Nothing.
Catherine: Well, it must be very boring for you here.
Bobby: That's right.
Catherine: I find that very hard to comprehend. I don't think I've ever been bored. Excuse me.
Too close to call?
Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says,
[grabs her cheeks with both her hands]
Betty: "You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes,
[presses one finger on her chin]
Betty: "Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going,
[holds one hand over her chin]
Betty: "Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me."
One of the five easy pieces, perhaps?
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Zadie Smith from On Beauty
In a whisper he began begging for — and, as the sun set, received — the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
...and then Heaven of course.
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
Let's name the couples here.
You look fine.
Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
Next up: having boys.
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone. You know?
Next up: Dateline.
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
You know, if it is a miracle.
How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?
It just does. And then capitalism comes along to...market it?
In a whisper he began begging for — and, as the sun set, received — the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
...and then Heaven of course.
Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
Let's name the couples here.
You look fine.
Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
Next up: having boys.
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone. You know?
Next up: Dateline.
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
You know, if it is a miracle.
How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?
It just does. And then capitalism comes along to...market it?
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Boiler Room
Seth Davis: [Narrating] I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker.
The dollar, sure. And what we do here.
Jim Young: [to the new recruits] There's an important phrase that we use here, and think it's time that you all learned it. Act as if. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the fucking President of this firm. Act as if you got a 9" cock. Okay? Act as if.
And, here, "act as if philosophy is just a world of words."
Greg Weinstein: I hope this is better than the last batch of shit you gave me. Produced more wood than Ron Jeremy. I don't want you to yell, "Reco!" anymore. Know what you should yell? "Timber!" Yeah, Mr. Fuckin' wood. I hear you fuckin' makin' your calls. It's bullshit, all right? I mean if you want them off the phone so bad, why don't you just hang up? You should get them excited. You know, excited? They should beg for a broker on the first call.
Or a prosecutor?
Michael Brantley: [making a speech and then a toast in the dining area of a hotel] I just wanted to let you guys know the pikers at the N.A.S.T. are finally off our ass, J.T Marlin once again has unlimated trading authorization I told you guys you can't keep a good man down, we're super stars now J.P. Morgan just faxed over their congratulations, it said "welcome to the club", this means those teams headed up by Todd and Richie who are good enough to give up their rep numbers, they can stop cold calling and start trading again, just to show you how appreciative I am there's something extra, I want you to go up to suite 418, I hand picked them myself, we're players now boys SOLUTE!
Pitch the bitch!
Seth Davis: [after refusing an immunity deal offered by the FBI] No, no deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with this case I swear to God, if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify and I mean that, for me it'd be worth going to jail for
FBI Agent David Drew: Are you serious?
Seth Davis: What'd you think?
FBI Agent David Drew: alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?
Seth Davis: I'm going to hand you this case on a silver fucking platter, I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything.
He knows Bud Fox too, no doubt.
Michael Brantley: [to the brokers after business hours] I want to congratulate all of you on a huge month, for those of you that are not yet convinced, these were the top dogs of this month, Jim Young, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, Chris Varick two hundred and five thousand dollars, and Greg Weinstein, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, this month is going to be even bigger, in fact it's going to be the biggest month we ever had, there's a new issue I wanted to talk to you about, it's called Med Patent, they just designed the world's first retractable syringe, that means doctors and nurses will never again have to worry about infection from dirty needles, this is not going to be an alternative in the medical world, this is going to be the standard, now I know we're here to make money, but if we can do something good like this, it's all the better, I want you to go out and buy yourselves a new car, go buy yourselves a house, go into debt, you are going to make a million dollars inside of six months, we're going to be taking a class trip tonight, so call your moms and tell them "not to wait up"!
Of course, we know better. And, in fact, most of them do too.
Seth Davis: [Narrating] I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million o his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker.
The dollar, sure. And what we do here.
Jim Young: [to the new recruits] There's an important phrase that we use here, and think it's time that you all learned it. Act as if. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the fucking President of this firm. Act as if you got a 9" cock. Okay? Act as if.
And, here, "act as if philosophy is just a world of words."
Greg Weinstein: I hope this is better than the last batch of shit you gave me. Produced more wood than Ron Jeremy. I don't want you to yell, "Reco!" anymore. Know what you should yell? "Timber!" Yeah, Mr. Fuckin' wood. I hear you fuckin' makin' your calls. It's bullshit, all right? I mean if you want them off the phone so bad, why don't you just hang up? You should get them excited. You know, excited? They should beg for a broker on the first call.
Or a prosecutor?
Michael Brantley: [making a speech and then a toast in the dining area of a hotel] I just wanted to let you guys know the pikers at the N.A.S.T. are finally off our ass, J.T Marlin once again has unlimated trading authorization I told you guys you can't keep a good man down, we're super stars now J.P. Morgan just faxed over their congratulations, it said "welcome to the club", this means those teams headed up by Todd and Richie who are good enough to give up their rep numbers, they can stop cold calling and start trading again, just to show you how appreciative I am there's something extra, I want you to go up to suite 418, I hand picked them myself, we're players now boys SOLUTE!
Pitch the bitch!
Seth Davis: [after refusing an immunity deal offered by the FBI] No, no deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with this case I swear to God, if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify and I mean that, for me it'd be worth going to jail for
FBI Agent David Drew: Are you serious?
Seth Davis: What'd you think?
FBI Agent David Drew: alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?
Seth Davis: I'm going to hand you this case on a silver fucking platter, I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything.
He knows Bud Fox too, no doubt.
Michael Brantley: [to the brokers after business hours] I want to congratulate all of you on a huge month, for those of you that are not yet convinced, these were the top dogs of this month, Jim Young, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, Chris Varick two hundred and five thousand dollars, and Greg Weinstein, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, this month is going to be even bigger, in fact it's going to be the biggest month we ever had, there's a new issue I wanted to talk to you about, it's called Med Patent, they just designed the world's first retractable syringe, that means doctors and nurses will never again have to worry about infection from dirty needles, this is not going to be an alternative in the medical world, this is going to be the standard, now I know we're here to make money, but if we can do something good like this, it's all the better, I want you to go out and buy yourselves a new car, go buy yourselves a house, go into debt, you are going to make a million dollars inside of six months, we're going to be taking a class trip tonight, so call your moms and tell them "not to wait up"!
Of course, we know better. And, in fact, most of them do too.
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Five Easy Pieces
Samia Glavia: ...It was just what I was trying to point out...
Bobby: [interrupting] Don't sit there pointing at her.
Samia Glavia: I beg your pardon.
Bobby: I said don't point at her, you creep.
Samia Glavia: But I was just telling about...
Bobby: Where do you get the ass to tell anybody anything about class, or who the hell's got it, or what she typifies? You shouldn't even be in the same room with her, you pompous celibate... You're totally full of shit! You're all full of shit.
Another of Will Durant's epistemologists let's say.
Bobby: Where are you goin'?
Palm Apodaca: Alaska.
Bobby: Alaska. What are you: on vacation?
Terry: She wants to live there 'cause it's cleaner.
Bobby: Cleaner. Cleaner than what?
Palm Apodaca: You don't have to tell everybody about it. Pretty soon they'll all go there and it won't be so clean.
Bobby: What makes you think it's cleaner?
Palm Apodaca: I saw a picture of it. Alaska's very clean. It appeared to look very white to me. Don't you think?
Bobby: Yep. That was before the big thaw.
Palm Apodaca: Before the what?
Also, the "big thaw" is now global, isn't it?
Palm Apodaca: You know, I read where they, uh, invented this car that runs on, ummm... that runs on, ummm... when you boil water?
Terry: Steam.
Palm Apodaca: Right, steam. A car that you could ride around in and not cause a stink. But do you know they will not even let us have it? Can you believe it? Why? Man! He likes to create a stink! I mean, I've seen filth that you wouldn't believe. Ugh! What a stink! I don't even want to talk about it.
She still doesn't, I'm guessing.
Bobby: I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay.
Really bad, right Elton?
Palm Apodaca: I had to leave this place because I got depressed seeing all the crap. And the thing is, they're making more crap, you know? They got so many stores and stuff and junk full of crap I can't believe it.
Bobby: Who?
Palm Apodaca: Who? Man, that's who. Pretty soon there won't be any room for man. They're selling more crap that people go and buy than you can imagine. Crap.
Let's imagine her here.
Betty: That's a wig you wear, isn't it?
Bobby: Me?
Betty: Yeah, I told her it was you but that you were wearin' a wig because on the TV you're mostly all, uh...
[pats him on the head]
Betty: ...bald up there!
[laughs]
Bobby: [laughs] Your, your little friend's real, real sharp. Uh, I don't, uh, I don't wear the wig on TV because if you're gonna be out there in front of two and a half million people, you've got to be sincere. I mean, I like to wear it when I'm in bowling alleys and slipping around, stuff like that. I think it gives me a little class. What do you think?
She's screwed.
Samia Glavia: ...It was just what I was trying to point out...
Bobby: [interrupting] Don't sit there pointing at her.
Samia Glavia: I beg your pardon.
Bobby: I said don't point at her, you creep.
Samia Glavia: But I was just telling about...
Bobby: Where do you get the ass to tell anybody anything about class, or who the hell's got it, or what she typifies? You shouldn't even be in the same room with her, you pompous celibate... You're totally full of shit! You're all full of shit.
Another of Will Durant's epistemologists let's say.
Bobby: Where are you goin'?
Palm Apodaca: Alaska.
Bobby: Alaska. What are you: on vacation?
Terry: She wants to live there 'cause it's cleaner.
Bobby: Cleaner. Cleaner than what?
Palm Apodaca: You don't have to tell everybody about it. Pretty soon they'll all go there and it won't be so clean.
Bobby: What makes you think it's cleaner?
Palm Apodaca: I saw a picture of it. Alaska's very clean. It appeared to look very white to me. Don't you think?
Bobby: Yep. That was before the big thaw.
Palm Apodaca: Before the what?
Also, the "big thaw" is now global, isn't it?
Palm Apodaca: You know, I read where they, uh, invented this car that runs on, ummm... that runs on, ummm... when you boil water?
Terry: Steam.
Palm Apodaca: Right, steam. A car that you could ride around in and not cause a stink. But do you know they will not even let us have it? Can you believe it? Why? Man! He likes to create a stink! I mean, I've seen filth that you wouldn't believe. Ugh! What a stink! I don't even want to talk about it.
She still doesn't, I'm guessing.
Bobby: I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay.
Really bad, right Elton?
Palm Apodaca: I had to leave this place because I got depressed seeing all the crap. And the thing is, they're making more crap, you know? They got so many stores and stuff and junk full of crap I can't believe it.
Bobby: Who?
Palm Apodaca: Who? Man, that's who. Pretty soon there won't be any room for man. They're selling more crap that people go and buy than you can imagine. Crap.
Let's imagine her here.
Betty: That's a wig you wear, isn't it?
Bobby: Me?
Betty: Yeah, I told her it was you but that you were wearin' a wig because on the TV you're mostly all, uh...
[pats him on the head]
Betty: ...bald up there!
[laughs]
Bobby: [laughs] Your, your little friend's real, real sharp. Uh, I don't, uh, I don't wear the wig on TV because if you're gonna be out there in front of two and a half million people, you've got to be sincere. I mean, I like to wear it when I'm in bowling alleys and slipping around, stuff like that. I think it gives me a little class. What do you think?
She's screwed.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Pedro: Don’t be afraid. Aguirre would never dare to rebel against the Spanish crown.
Inez: We are not in Castile here.
Not even close in some respects.
Runo [to Flores]: The Spaniards gave me the name Balthasar but my real name is Runo Rimac. It means, He who speaks. I was a prince in this land. No one was allowed to look directly into my eyes. But now I’m in chaims like my people. Almost everything was taken from us. I can’t do anything. I’m powerless. But I am also sorry for you because I know there is no escape from this jungle.
Or, today, what's left of it.
Aguirre: When we reach the sea we will build a bigger ship, sail north and take Trinidad from the Spanish crown. From there we’ll sail on and take Mexico from Cortez. What great treachery this will be! Then, all of New Spain will be in our hands and we’ll stage history like others stage plays. I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I’ll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We will endure. I am the wrath of God! Who else is with me?!
Actually, aside from the monkeys, all the others are dead.
Okello: [Hallucinating] That is no ship. That is no forest.
[Arrow hits him]
Okello: That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.
Like, say, some fear dasein here?
Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water... more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...
And then, finally, no one is left to.
Don Fernando de Guzman: It won't be much longer. El Dorado could be only a few days away. No more rust on the cannon. We shall shoot our enemies with golden bullets. And you, Okello, will serve food on golden platters.
Okello: All of us will get something out of this. Governorships, provinces, women. And perhaps I'll even be free.
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: Let us not forget the most important part of our mission. To spread the Word of God to these savages.
Don Fernando de Guzman: I'm sure you'd like a golden cross encrusted with jewels instead of the silver one you lost.
Let's call it the deep state back then.
Pedro: Don’t be afraid. Aguirre would never dare to rebel against the Spanish crown.
Inez: We are not in Castile here.
Not even close in some respects.
Runo [to Flores]: The Spaniards gave me the name Balthasar but my real name is Runo Rimac. It means, He who speaks. I was a prince in this land. No one was allowed to look directly into my eyes. But now I’m in chaims like my people. Almost everything was taken from us. I can’t do anything. I’m powerless. But I am also sorry for you because I know there is no escape from this jungle.
Or, today, what's left of it.
Aguirre: When we reach the sea we will build a bigger ship, sail north and take Trinidad from the Spanish crown. From there we’ll sail on and take Mexico from Cortez. What great treachery this will be! Then, all of New Spain will be in our hands and we’ll stage history like others stage plays. I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I’ll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We will endure. I am the wrath of God! Who else is with me?!
Actually, aside from the monkeys, all the others are dead.
Okello: [Hallucinating] That is no ship. That is no forest.
[Arrow hits him]
Okello: That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.
Like, say, some fear dasein here?
Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water... more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...
And then, finally, no one is left to.
Don Fernando de Guzman: It won't be much longer. El Dorado could be only a few days away. No more rust on the cannon. We shall shoot our enemies with golden bullets. And you, Okello, will serve food on golden platters.
Okello: All of us will get something out of this. Governorships, provinces, women. And perhaps I'll even be free.
Brother Gaspar de Carvajal: Let us not forget the most important part of our mission. To spread the Word of God to these savages.
Don Fernando de Guzman: I'm sure you'd like a golden cross encrusted with jewels instead of the silver one you lost.
Let's call it the deep state back then.
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Death
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.” Terry Pratchett
I know that I would.
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: 'Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready'.” Charles Bukowski
So, eyeball to eyeball with it, was he?
“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophically, let's say.
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.” Sylvia Plath
And now? What does she believe now?
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.” John Steinbeck
Like, for most of us, that's even possible.
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” Albert Camus
Any thinking people here?
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.” Terry Pratchett
I know that I would.
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: 'Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready'.” Charles Bukowski
So, eyeball to eyeball with it, was he?
“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophically, let's say.
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.” Sylvia Plath
And now? What does she believe now?
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.” John Steinbeck
Like, for most of us, that's even possible.
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.” Albert Camus
Any thinking people here?
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Boiler Room
Seth Davis: [Narrating] I'm plagued by "what ifs?"these days, what if Greg hadn't come over that night, what if I hadn't forgot my bag? or seen Michael walk into the other building that day? what if i had skipped over Harry's card? what are the chances? what are the odds?
Let's run this by Benjamin Button.
Seth Davis: Chris, the FBI is going to raid this place in twenty minutes!
Chris Varick: [Yelling louder] What the fuck are you talking about? Fuck Seth!
Seth Davis: come on man, I asked you for months about shit going on here and you told me to shut the fuck up and get ready to be a millionaire.
Chris Varick: That's right "shut the fuck up", didn't you learn anything?
Seth Davis: I learned how to fuck people out their money my client, Harry Reynard just lost his life savings, and he wasn't a whale, he was just a poor schmuck and I took him, I did everything J.T Marlin taught me to do and I made up his mind for him.
Chris Varick: What do you want me to tell you? That's what we do here.
Seth Davis: We lie, we're liars.
Chris Varick: Who they coming for?
Seth Davis: They're coming for everybody, everything.
Chris had best skedaddle...fast and furious.
Jim Young: [Pitching to the new recruits] There is no question whether you'll become a millionaire. The only question is how many times over. You think I'm joking? I'm not joking, I am a fucking millionaire, it's a weird thing to hear, right? , it's also a weird thing to say, and guess how old I am? twenty seven, do you know what that makes me here? A fucking senior citizen, this firm is entirely comprised of guys your age not mine, luckily for me I happen to be very fucking good at my job or I'd be out of one, you guys are the new blood you are the future big swinging dicks of this firm, let me tell you what's required: you are required to work your fucking ass off at this firm, we want winners, not "pikers", a "piker" walks at the bell, piker asks "how much vacation time you get in the first year", "vacation time?", people come to this firm for one reason: to become filthy rich, we're not here to make friends, we're not here to save the fucking manatees, you want "vacation time?" go to third grade public school, first three months you start as a trainee, you make one hundred and fifty dollars a week, after you're done training you take the Series 7 test, pass that, you become a junior broker and then your opening accounts for your team leader once you open forty accounts, you start working for yourself, the sky's the limit, a word or two about being a trainee, friends, relatives, other brokers will give you shit about it, it's true, one hundred fifty dollars is not a lot of money, pay them no minds, you need to learn this business and this is the time to do it, once you pass the test, none of that is going to matter, your friends are shit, you tell them you made twenty five grand last month, they're not going to fucking believe you, fuck that, fuck them, parents don't like the life you lead? Fuck you mom and dad! You'll see how it feels when you're making their fucking Lexus payments, now go home and think about it, think about if this is really for you, listen, if you decide it isn't its nothing to be embarrassed about, this job's not for everyone, but if you really want this, you call me on Monday and we'll talk, just don't waste my fucking time.
Filthy rich works for you, right?
Seth Davis: [Over the phone] Should I send the confirmation to your business or your home?
Harry Reynard: I need to talk to my wife first.
Seth Davis: No, you don't need to do that.
Harry Reynard: You're at work right now aren't you?
Seth Davis: So what do you do for a living?
Harry Reynard: I'm a purchasing manager at a gourmet foods company.
Seth Davis: Does part of your job involve making decisions?
Harry Reynard: Of course.
Seth Davis: So when you're making one of these decisions, do you call your wife and ask her what you should do?
Harry Reynard: Of course not but that's a little different.
Seth Davis: Different? How is that different? it's your money, you earned it, besides your only investing it, I'm not selling crack here, she's only going to be happy to see you made a wise investment for the family: just think about the flip side, when your wife is shopping does she call you from Pathmark to ask you if she can use a coupon for Captain Crunch?
Harry Reynard: That's not being fair.
Seth Davis: I know I'm just trying to make a point here, we're not talking about a lot of money and just think what she's going to say when you bring home a big fat check because you had the foresight to see a good thing coming
Harry Reynard: Alright let's try it.
Reeling them in.
Seth Davis: [to Abby] I went to the Med Patent office and there isn't one, its cardboard there's nothing, there's no employees there's no research and development I found out how Michael is making his money, we're selling stock for companies that don't exist.
Not as easy as it sounds though.
Judge Marty Davis: [while having dinner with their family] How come I've never heard of this firm?
Seth Davis: It's a smaller firm, there are probably a million others you've never heard of.
Judge Marty Davis: The reason I ask is I thought you'd join a firm like Goldman Sachs or something of that stature.
Seth Davis: The reason the larger houses don't like to hire kids straight out of college unless you went to an ivy league school or if you want to do cash flow analysis for the next fifteen years they usually want you to work outside their firm for a few years and get a good sense of the market, but most brokers start out at little firms like JT Marlin
Judge Marty Davis: Good, so all you have to do now is close the casino.
Just another fish, right Seth?
Seth Davis: [Narrating] I'm plagued by "what ifs?"these days, what if Greg hadn't come over that night, what if I hadn't forgot my bag? or seen Michael walk into the other building that day? what if i had skipped over Harry's card? what are the chances? what are the odds?
Let's run this by Benjamin Button.
Seth Davis: Chris, the FBI is going to raid this place in twenty minutes!
Chris Varick: [Yelling louder] What the fuck are you talking about? Fuck Seth!
Seth Davis: come on man, I asked you for months about shit going on here and you told me to shut the fuck up and get ready to be a millionaire.
Chris Varick: That's right "shut the fuck up", didn't you learn anything?
Seth Davis: I learned how to fuck people out their money my client, Harry Reynard just lost his life savings, and he wasn't a whale, he was just a poor schmuck and I took him, I did everything J.T Marlin taught me to do and I made up his mind for him.
Chris Varick: What do you want me to tell you? That's what we do here.
Seth Davis: We lie, we're liars.
Chris Varick: Who they coming for?
Seth Davis: They're coming for everybody, everything.
Chris had best skedaddle...fast and furious.
Jim Young: [Pitching to the new recruits] There is no question whether you'll become a millionaire. The only question is how many times over. You think I'm joking? I'm not joking, I am a fucking millionaire, it's a weird thing to hear, right? , it's also a weird thing to say, and guess how old I am? twenty seven, do you know what that makes me here? A fucking senior citizen, this firm is entirely comprised of guys your age not mine, luckily for me I happen to be very fucking good at my job or I'd be out of one, you guys are the new blood you are the future big swinging dicks of this firm, let me tell you what's required: you are required to work your fucking ass off at this firm, we want winners, not "pikers", a "piker" walks at the bell, piker asks "how much vacation time you get in the first year", "vacation time?", people come to this firm for one reason: to become filthy rich, we're not here to make friends, we're not here to save the fucking manatees, you want "vacation time?" go to third grade public school, first three months you start as a trainee, you make one hundred and fifty dollars a week, after you're done training you take the Series 7 test, pass that, you become a junior broker and then your opening accounts for your team leader once you open forty accounts, you start working for yourself, the sky's the limit, a word or two about being a trainee, friends, relatives, other brokers will give you shit about it, it's true, one hundred fifty dollars is not a lot of money, pay them no minds, you need to learn this business and this is the time to do it, once you pass the test, none of that is going to matter, your friends are shit, you tell them you made twenty five grand last month, they're not going to fucking believe you, fuck that, fuck them, parents don't like the life you lead? Fuck you mom and dad! You'll see how it feels when you're making their fucking Lexus payments, now go home and think about it, think about if this is really for you, listen, if you decide it isn't its nothing to be embarrassed about, this job's not for everyone, but if you really want this, you call me on Monday and we'll talk, just don't waste my fucking time.
Filthy rich works for you, right?
Seth Davis: [Over the phone] Should I send the confirmation to your business or your home?
Harry Reynard: I need to talk to my wife first.
Seth Davis: No, you don't need to do that.
Harry Reynard: You're at work right now aren't you?
Seth Davis: So what do you do for a living?
Harry Reynard: I'm a purchasing manager at a gourmet foods company.
Seth Davis: Does part of your job involve making decisions?
Harry Reynard: Of course.
Seth Davis: So when you're making one of these decisions, do you call your wife and ask her what you should do?
Harry Reynard: Of course not but that's a little different.
Seth Davis: Different? How is that different? it's your money, you earned it, besides your only investing it, I'm not selling crack here, she's only going to be happy to see you made a wise investment for the family: just think about the flip side, when your wife is shopping does she call you from Pathmark to ask you if she can use a coupon for Captain Crunch?
Harry Reynard: That's not being fair.
Seth Davis: I know I'm just trying to make a point here, we're not talking about a lot of money and just think what she's going to say when you bring home a big fat check because you had the foresight to see a good thing coming
Harry Reynard: Alright let's try it.
Reeling them in.
Seth Davis: [to Abby] I went to the Med Patent office and there isn't one, its cardboard there's nothing, there's no employees there's no research and development I found out how Michael is making his money, we're selling stock for companies that don't exist.
Not as easy as it sounds though.
Judge Marty Davis: [while having dinner with their family] How come I've never heard of this firm?
Seth Davis: It's a smaller firm, there are probably a million others you've never heard of.
Judge Marty Davis: The reason I ask is I thought you'd join a firm like Goldman Sachs or something of that stature.
Seth Davis: The reason the larger houses don't like to hire kids straight out of college unless you went to an ivy league school or if you want to do cash flow analysis for the next fifteen years they usually want you to work outside their firm for a few years and get a good sense of the market, but most brokers start out at little firms like JT Marlin
Judge Marty Davis: Good, so all you have to do now is close the casino.
Just another fish, right Seth?
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Re: Quote of the day
Philosophy
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” Epictetus
The pinheads here, for starters.
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” Paulo Coelho
Just as I predicted.
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.” David Foster Wallace
And let's not forget the hummingbirds.
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.” Immanuel Kant
Imagine his reaction to me.
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” Isaac Newton
With obvious exceptions, of course.
“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.” Slavoj Žižek
On the other hand, what is the reason for that?
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” Epictetus
The pinheads here, for starters.
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” Paulo Coelho
Just as I predicted.
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.” David Foster Wallace
And let's not forget the hummingbirds.
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.” Immanuel Kant
Imagine his reaction to me.
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” Isaac Newton
With obvious exceptions, of course.
“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.” Slavoj Žižek
On the other hand, what is the reason for that?
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Re: Quote of the day
Croupier
Marion: What do I mean to you? I want to know. Tell me!
Jack: You're my conscience.
Marion: Haven't you got a conscience of your own?
Dad never gave him one.
Jack: The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills - it kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave, impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you, too, but there will be no special hurry.
Next up: it fractures and fragments you.
Jack: I'm not an enigma, just a contradiction.
Let's explain that.
Marion: Most men'll fuck a lamppost.
And most fire hydrants.
Jack: [voiceover] Chapter 3. His existence was forming an interesting pattern of betrayals. Sometimes he was unsure whether he was the betrayer or the betrayed.
Or just took turns.
Jack: [voiceover] Chapter 13. It's all numbers, the croupier thought. Spin of the wheel, turn of the card, time of your life, date of your birth, year of your death. In the book of Numbers the Lord said, "Thou shall count thy steps."
Or patterns, right Paul?
Marion: What do I mean to you? I want to know. Tell me!
Jack: You're my conscience.
Marion: Haven't you got a conscience of your own?
Dad never gave him one.
Jack: The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills - it kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave, impartially. If you are none of these, you can be sure it will kill you, too, but there will be no special hurry.
Next up: it fractures and fragments you.
Jack: I'm not an enigma, just a contradiction.
Let's explain that.
Marion: Most men'll fuck a lamppost.
And most fire hydrants.
Jack: [voiceover] Chapter 3. His existence was forming an interesting pattern of betrayals. Sometimes he was unsure whether he was the betrayer or the betrayed.
Or just took turns.
Jack: [voiceover] Chapter 13. It's all numbers, the croupier thought. Spin of the wheel, turn of the card, time of your life, date of your birth, year of your death. In the book of Numbers the Lord said, "Thou shall count thy steps."
Or patterns, right Paul?
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Re: Quote of the day
Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey: Ohio deplores fellatio; but, tolerates cunnilingus. Whereas, in my home state of Indiana, all forms of oral sex are illegal - even within marriage. The current sex laws are completely out of touch with the real world.
Huntington Hartford: I've had four wives. Some people say that makes me a sex offender.
Marjorie Hartford: Well, hon, if you keep interrupting Dr. Kinsey, you're going to have find a fifth.
Sex and the real world? Well, one of them.
Wardell Pomeroy: How old were you when you first engaged in sexual activity with a partner?
Research Subject: Fourteen.
Wardell Pomeroy: How?
Research Subject: With horse.
Wardell Pomeroy: [pause] How often were you having intercourse with animals at age 14?
Research Subject: [stunned] It's true. I fucked a pony. You are genius, how did you know?
Wardell Pomeroy: You just said you had...sex with horse.
Research Subject: Nooo...Whores, not horse, whores.
Could happen to anyone.
Alfred Kinsey: Everybody's sin is nobody's sin, and everybody's crime is no crime at all.
Tell that to the judge and the jury.
Clyde Martin: When did you first begin masturbating?
Old Woman: I invented it, son.
Eve?
Final Interview Subject: We'd been married for 23 years. We have three marvelous children. And as soon as my youngest left to go to college, I took a job - in an arts foundation. I met a woman there - a secretary in the grants office. We became fast friends and - before long, I fell in love with her. This came as quite a shock as you might imagine. The more I tried to ignore it, the more powerful it became. You have no idea what its like to have your own thoughts turn against you like that. I couldn't talk to anyone about my situation. So, I found other ways to cope. I took up drinking. Eventually, my husband left me. Even my children fell away. I came very close to ending it all.
Alfred Kinsey: Its just another reminder of how little things have changed in our society.
Final Interview Subject: What are you talking about? Things have gotten much better.
Alfred Kinsey: Oh? What happened?
Final Interview Subject: Why you did, of course. After I read your book I realized how many other women were in the same situation. I mustered the courage to talk to my friend and she told me, to my great surprise, that the feelings were mutual. We've been together for three happy years now. You saved my life, sir.
Woke!
Clyde Martin: You know what amazes me? There's no relation between how sexy a girl looks and her sex life. The ugly ones seem to get all the action.
Clara McMillen: I always thought ugly was an ugly word.
No getting around it though for some.
Alfred Kinsey: Ohio deplores fellatio; but, tolerates cunnilingus. Whereas, in my home state of Indiana, all forms of oral sex are illegal - even within marriage. The current sex laws are completely out of touch with the real world.
Huntington Hartford: I've had four wives. Some people say that makes me a sex offender.
Marjorie Hartford: Well, hon, if you keep interrupting Dr. Kinsey, you're going to have find a fifth.
Sex and the real world? Well, one of them.
Wardell Pomeroy: How old were you when you first engaged in sexual activity with a partner?
Research Subject: Fourteen.
Wardell Pomeroy: How?
Research Subject: With horse.
Wardell Pomeroy: [pause] How often were you having intercourse with animals at age 14?
Research Subject: [stunned] It's true. I fucked a pony. You are genius, how did you know?
Wardell Pomeroy: You just said you had...sex with horse.
Research Subject: Nooo...Whores, not horse, whores.
Could happen to anyone.
Alfred Kinsey: Everybody's sin is nobody's sin, and everybody's crime is no crime at all.
Tell that to the judge and the jury.
Clyde Martin: When did you first begin masturbating?
Old Woman: I invented it, son.
Eve?
Final Interview Subject: We'd been married for 23 years. We have three marvelous children. And as soon as my youngest left to go to college, I took a job - in an arts foundation. I met a woman there - a secretary in the grants office. We became fast friends and - before long, I fell in love with her. This came as quite a shock as you might imagine. The more I tried to ignore it, the more powerful it became. You have no idea what its like to have your own thoughts turn against you like that. I couldn't talk to anyone about my situation. So, I found other ways to cope. I took up drinking. Eventually, my husband left me. Even my children fell away. I came very close to ending it all.
Alfred Kinsey: Its just another reminder of how little things have changed in our society.
Final Interview Subject: What are you talking about? Things have gotten much better.
Alfred Kinsey: Oh? What happened?
Final Interview Subject: Why you did, of course. After I read your book I realized how many other women were in the same situation. I mustered the courage to talk to my friend and she told me, to my great surprise, that the feelings were mutual. We've been together for three happy years now. You saved my life, sir.
Woke!
Clyde Martin: You know what amazes me? There's no relation between how sexy a girl looks and her sex life. The ugly ones seem to get all the action.
Clara McMillen: I always thought ugly was an ugly word.
No getting around it though for some.
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Re: Quote of the day
Heat
[McCauley calls Van Zant on the phone]
Roger Van Zant: What are you doing?
Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
Roger Van Zant: I don't understand.
Neil McCauley: 'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line.
Next up: this fucking post.
Vincent Hanna: My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That's my life.
Neil McCauley: A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a marriage?
Next up: the heat here.
Or what's left of it?
Vincent Hanna: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down.
Neil McCauley: There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.
Of course the rest is all scripted.
Vincent Hanna: I got an idea of what they're looking at. You wanna know what they're looking at? I mean - is this guy something, or is he something? This crew is good. You know what they're looking at?
Schwartz: What?
Vincent Hanna: Us. The L-A-P-D. Po-lice Department...We just got made.
The beginning of the end for some of them.
Vincent Hanna: What are you, a monk?
Neil McCauley: I have a woman.
Vincent Hanna: What do you tell her?
Neil McCauley: I tell her I'm a salesman.
Vincent Hanna: So then, if you spot me coming around that corner...you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?
Neil McCauley: That's the discipline.
Vincent Hanna: That's pretty vacant, you know.
Neil McCauley: Yeah, it is what it is. It's that or we both better go do something else, pal.
Vincent Hanna: I don't know how to do anything else.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
Vincent Hanna: I don't much want to either.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
The beginning of the end for one of them.
Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?
How about what we do here, fellas?
[McCauley calls Van Zant on the phone]
Roger Van Zant: What are you doing?
Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
Roger Van Zant: I don't understand.
Neil McCauley: 'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line.
Next up: this fucking post.
Vincent Hanna: My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That's my life.
Neil McCauley: A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a marriage?
Next up: the heat here.
Or what's left of it?
Vincent Hanna: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down.
Neil McCauley: There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.
Of course the rest is all scripted.
Vincent Hanna: I got an idea of what they're looking at. You wanna know what they're looking at? I mean - is this guy something, or is he something? This crew is good. You know what they're looking at?
Schwartz: What?
Vincent Hanna: Us. The L-A-P-D. Po-lice Department...We just got made.
The beginning of the end for some of them.
Vincent Hanna: What are you, a monk?
Neil McCauley: I have a woman.
Vincent Hanna: What do you tell her?
Neil McCauley: I tell her I'm a salesman.
Vincent Hanna: So then, if you spot me coming around that corner...you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?
Neil McCauley: That's the discipline.
Vincent Hanna: That's pretty vacant, you know.
Neil McCauley: Yeah, it is what it is. It's that or we both better go do something else, pal.
Vincent Hanna: I don't know how to do anything else.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
Vincent Hanna: I don't much want to either.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
The beginning of the end for one of them.
Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?
How about what we do here, fellas?
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Re: Quote of the day
Despair
“...despair is suffering without meaning...” Viktor E. Frankl
Whatever that means.
“I hadn't realized that misery maybe got worse the older you were.” John Christopher
Duh?
“I finally found a setting for despair…So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything...” Philip K. Dick
Or, here, twice a day.
For starters.
“There was, Julia Prescott decided, only the finest razor-edge between depression and despair. Depression had been constant for weeks, familiar, creeping up on her like a prowler in tennis shoes. But despair was the dreaded spectre behind the closed door, springing forth just when you least expected it." Rosamunde Pilcher
Behind closed doors here?
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” Anne Lamott
"It is only when we think our actions are useless that we fall into despair. In some ways, the Buddha teaches us that we are powerless, and in other ways, he teaches us that we are powerful beyond measure. We have very little power to control the external world. The Beauty of Despair By Sister Ocean at BDG.
Unless, of course, she's wrong.
“No one was there – or if there was, He/It was cowering from her. God had turned His face away, and why not? This horror was as much His doing as hers.” Stephen King
Or all of His doing as often as not.
“...despair is suffering without meaning...” Viktor E. Frankl
Whatever that means.
“I hadn't realized that misery maybe got worse the older you were.” John Christopher
Duh?
“I finally found a setting for despair…So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything...” Philip K. Dick
Or, here, twice a day.
For starters.
“There was, Julia Prescott decided, only the finest razor-edge between depression and despair. Depression had been constant for weeks, familiar, creeping up on her like a prowler in tennis shoes. But despair was the dreaded spectre behind the closed door, springing forth just when you least expected it." Rosamunde Pilcher
Behind closed doors here?
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” Anne Lamott
"It is only when we think our actions are useless that we fall into despair. In some ways, the Buddha teaches us that we are powerless, and in other ways, he teaches us that we are powerful beyond measure. We have very little power to control the external world. The Beauty of Despair By Sister Ocean at BDG.
Unless, of course, she's wrong.
“No one was there – or if there was, He/It was cowering from her. God had turned His face away, and why not? This horror was as much His doing as hers.” Stephen King
Or all of His doing as often as not.