Did you perhaps read the book? It's a great story, and while I think the movie has diminished a bit with time, it was so well done with an excellent cast.MajGenl.Meade wrote:I know I can't enter this round, which is a pity. Although I have no recollection of the quote (or watching the movie for that matter), I worked it out correctly! It'll be a hell of a long time before that happens again!
Name That Movie!
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Guin--I'm pretty sure I know it; I know I didn't see the movie, but I know the line anyway. Saying anymore might give it away.
I'll wait my customary 24 hours.
I'll wait my customary 24 hours.
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I already gave the correct answer, didn't I? And a new quote.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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No Scooter, no Meade.
It's a very recent film.
It's a very recent film.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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BigRR - my comment to you was in reference to the new quote, not the quote I posted.Big RR wrote:Guin--I'm pretty sure I know it; I know I didn't see the movie, but I know the line anyway. Saying anymore might give it away.
I'll wait my customary 24 hours.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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So was mine; and BSG's latest hint makes me pretty sure I am right.
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Was it "Fences"? I haven't seen the movie, but I think they used that in the trailer--which I did see.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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— God @The Tweet of God
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Bingo! My little homage to August Wilson, whose plays (most of them) I read in a graduate seminar. Wished he'd won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but it's one of his most powerful works and I expect it to be magnificent!
Over to you, Econo.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but it's one of his most powerful works and I expect it to be magnificent!
Over to you, Econo.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Way to go econo; I recalled it from the play which I saw a while back.
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This one might be easy....and it does tie into the previous quote:
I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going to carry an astronaut to the stars. I think we can say we are living the impossible.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
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— God @The Tweet of God
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My favorite movie of the season, the incredibly inspiring Hidden Figures.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Mine too! I knew there wasn't much chance of it winning, but I was so happy that it at least got nominated for Best Motion Picture, and I was rooting for it anyway.
Yup, Guin's got it again. Over to you.
Yup, Guin's got it again. Over to you.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God @The Tweet of God
— God @The Tweet of God
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Sticking with my beach theme:
“I think I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass.”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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I'll be surprised if it takes more than an hour before somebody gets this one...
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Yes, its Jaws.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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I may have read it - back in 1960-something. But the iconic rolling on the beach scene I must have seen many times on various TV shows about movies. It was the only movie I could think of in which a woman might have said that she had a swimsuit on underneath her clothes. In a more modern movie, she'd have just skinny-dippedGuinevere wrote:Did you perhaps read the book? It's a great story, and while I think the movie has diminished a bit with time, it was so well done with an excellent cast.MajGenl.Meade wrote:I know I can't enter this round, which is a pity. Although I have no recollection of the quote (or watching the movie for that matter), I worked it out correctly! It'll be a hell of a long time before that happens again!
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts