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The Last Days of Disco (1998) More at IMDbPro »

Charlotte Pingress: Did people ever really dance in bars? I thought that was a myth.

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Charlotte Pingress: Maybe in physical terms I'm a little cuter than you, but you should be much more popular than I am.

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Josh Neff: A lot of people like to say they won't take no for an answer. I just wanted you to know that I'm not one of them; I can be easily discouraged. I *will* take no for an answer.

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Des McGrath: Do you really think the neurological effects of coffee are similar to that of cocaine?

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Des McGrath: Group social life has its place, but at a certain point other biological factors come into play. Our bodies weren't really designed for group social life. A certain amount of pairing off was always part of the original plan.

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Tom Platt: Actually, there's one theory that the environmental movement of our day was sparked by the rerelease of Bambi in the late 1950s.

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Alice Kinnon: There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck.

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Ted Boynton: Barcelona is beautiful but in human terms, pretty cold.

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Des McGrath: I have a gay mouth?

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Jimmy: There's something deeply ingrained in human biology: women prefer bad over weak and indecisive... and unemployed
Josh Neff: I don't know about that.
Jimmy: You think they do prefer weak, indecisive, and unemployed?

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Des McGrath: [to Josh] Are you taking your medication?

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Des McGrath: I'm not an addict. I'm a habitual user.

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Jimmy: [to Alice] There's no chance of you getting infatuated with me again, is there?

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[Josh describes Lady and the Tramp]
Josh Neff: [referring to Lady and the Tramp] There is something depressing about it, and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types, which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blond Cocker Spaniel with absolutely nothing on her brain. She's great-looking, but - let's be honest - incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest, is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind - an oily jailbird out for a piece of tail, or... whatever he can get.
Charlotte Pingress: Oh, come on.
Josh Neff: No, he's a self-confessed chicken thief, and all-around sleazeball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially as a primer on love and marriage directed at very young people, imprinting on their little psyches the idea that smooth-talking delinquents recently escaped from the local pound are a good match for nice girls from sheltered homes. When in ten years the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house, their hormones will be racing and no one will understand why. Films like this program women to adore jerks.

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Des McGrath: Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional". Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category. I wish we were yuppies. Young, upwardly mobile, professional. Those are *good* things, not bad things.

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Bernie Rafferty: So you don't know anything about this investigation.
Des McGrath: No!... Well, a sort of *acquaintance* of mine who now works in Morgenthau's office approached me, but... I didn't tell him anything.
Bernie Rafferty: You didn't tell me about that.
Des McGrath: I didn't think it was important, it only just happened.
Bernie Rafferty: When?
Des McGrath: Tonight - just now.
Bernie Rafferty: Why did you use the past perfect, then?
Des McGrath: I used the past perfect?
Bernie Rafferty: Yeah: "I was approached." It sounds like a while ago.

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Alice Kinnon: I'm sorry, I don't consider the guy who did the Spiderman comics a serious writer.

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Alice Kinnon: I think it's much better to wait until things happen naturally. Forcing things never works.
Charlotte Pingress: That's not true. Forcing things usually works beautifully.

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Jimmy: That's like something out of the Nazis!

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Alice Kinnon: That's odd he knew I drank vodka tonics. I never told him.
Des McGrath: It's uncanny.
Alice Kinnon: You mean it's a complete cliché? All women recent college graduates drink vodka tonics, or something like that?
Des McGrath: Well, maybe.

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Charlotte Pingress: [to Dan] What if in a few years we don't marry some corporate lawyer? What if we marry some meatball, like you? Or not you, personally, but someone with similarly low socioeconomic prospects.

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Charlotte Pingress: It's really important there be more group social life. Not just all this ferocious pairing off.

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Des McGrath: [indicating Van] I tease him a *little* bit...
Bernie Rafferty: No teasing, Des.
Des McGrath: No *teasing*?

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Des McGrath: Do yuppies even exist? No one says, "I am a yuppie," it's always the other guy who's a yuppie. I think for a group to exist, somebody has to admit to be part of it.
Dan Powers: Of course yuppies exist. Most people would say you two are prime specimens.

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Charlotte Pingress: You're not fit to lick the boots of my real gay friends.
Des McGrath: Well, I don't *want* to lick the boots of your real gay friends.

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Charlotte Pingress: You know the Woodstock generation of the 1960s that were so full of themselves and conceited?

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Charlotte Pingress: Anything I did that was wrong, I apologize for. But anything I did that was not wrong, I don't apologize for.

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Josh Neff: Take The Tortoise and the Hare. Okay, the tortoise won one race. Do you think that hare is really going to lose any more races to turtles? Not on your life.
Alice Kinnon: I like that tortoise.
Josh Neff: So do I. But if you were a betting person, would you say, "That tortoise won against the hare; in future races I'm backing him"? No. That race was almost certainly a fluke and afterwards the tortoise is still a tortoise, and the hare a hare.

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Dan Powers: You know, Alice, except for politics, we've got a lot in common: We're both pretty serious, and, I think, respect each other's bases for judgment. Occasionally I get reactionary thoughts, too.
Alice Kinnon: I'm not reactionary.
Dan Powers: Well, aesthetically.
Alice Kinnon: Oh, well - *aesthetically*.

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Alice Kinnon: If when making love, the man... *spurts*... outside the woman, does that count as sexual intercourse?
Tom Platt: "Spurts"?
Alice Kinnon: If it... *squirts* outside, without getting in... does that count as losing your virginity?
Tom Platt: No part of the man got in at any time?
Alice Kinnon: I don't think so.
Tom Platt: I think part has to get in to be considered sexual intercourse.
Alice Kinnon: So then I was a virgin.

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Josh Neff: Book this clown.

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Des McGrath: I'm going to turn over a new leaf in Spain. I'm going to turn over several new leaves.

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Des McGrath: You know that Shakespearean admonition, "To thine own self be true"? It's premised on the idea that "thine own self" is something pretty good, being true to which is commendable. But what if "thine own self" is not so good? What if it's pretty bad? Would it be better, in that case, *not* to be true to thine own self?... See, that's my situation.

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Alice Kinnon: I love the company! They've been so great to us there.
Dan Powers: Well, I don't know; we were exploited. But they were nice about it...

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Dan Powers: Reincarnation - life after death - mumbo-jumbo of all kinds has been highly commercial throughout the history of book publishing. The first printed book... was the Bible.

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Josh Neff: Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People will laugh about John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, white polyester suits and platform shoes and people going like *this*
[strikes disco pose]
Josh Neff: , but we had nothing to do with those things and still loved disco. Those who didn't understand will never understand: disco was much more, and much better, than all that. Disco was too great, and too much fun, to be gone forever! It's got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.
[Des, Charlotte, Dan, and Van stare at Josh like he's crazy]
Josh Neff: ...Sorry, I've got a job interview this afternoon and I was just trying to get revved up, but... most of what I said, I, um... believe.

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Tom Platt: Why is it that when people have sex with strangers on their mind their IQ just drops like 40 points?

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Des McGrath: 'Yuppie scum'? In college, before dropping out, I took a course in the propaganda uses of language; one objective is to deny other people's humanity, or even right to exist.
Jimmy: In the men's lounge someone scrawled 'kill yuppie scum'.
Des McGrath: Do yuppies even exist? No one says, "I am a yuppie," it's always the other guy who's a yuppie. I think for a group to exist, somebody has to admit to be part of it.

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