Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here. Amy: Just stop it! Rory: Just think it through, this will work. This will kill the Angels. Amy: it will kill you too. Rory: Will it? River said that this place would be erased from time, never existed. If this place never existed what did I fall off? Amy: You think you'll just come back to life. Rory: When don't I? Amy: Rory— Rory: Anyway, what else is there? Dying of old age downstairs, never seeing you again? Amy, please. If you love me, then trust me and push. Amy: I can't. Rory: You have to! Amy: Could you? Could you if it was me? Could you do it? Rory: To save you, I could do anything. Amy: Prove it. Rory: But I can't take you too. Amy: You said we'd come back to life. Money-where-your-mouth-is time. Rory: Amy, but— Amy: Shut. Up. Together. Or not at all -Doctor Who
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What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform... STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that... STEVEN HALPERN I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. STEVEN SPIELBERG If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th... STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it? STEVEN WRIGHT Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. STEVEN SODERBERGH It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to... STEVEN SEAGAL Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. STEVEN TYLER A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this. STEVEN PRESSFIELD Black holes are where God divided by zero. STEVEN WRIGHT Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things... STEVEN WEINBERG One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h... STEVEN DEITZ Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo... STEVEN WRIGHT The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. STEVEN CHU Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme... STEVEN ROGERS I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. STEVEN WRIGHT I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. STEVEN WRIGHT A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti... STEVEN DEITZ People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua... STEVEN SPIELBERG My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l... STEVEN SPIELBERG So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'... STEVEN CHU Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on... STEVEN PINKER If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Ros... STEVEN ADLER Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in... STEVEN PINKER Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a prete... STEVEN PINKER Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c... STEVEN SPIELBERG 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t... STEVEN PINKER Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po... STEVEN HALL My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. STEVEN WRIGHT What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,... STEVEN LEVITAN For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe... STEVEN PRICE Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b... STEVEN WRIGHT Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate... STEVEN SINOFSKY Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b... STEVEN TYLER When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All... STEVEN PINKER The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m... STEVEN SPIELBERG The amateur tweets. The pro works. STEVEN PRESSFIELD Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt... STEVEN PRESSFIELD George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk. STEVEN WRIGHT One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor... STEVEN STUCKY Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev... STEVEN BLUM Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescrib... STEVEN BLUM The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. STEVEN WRIGHT