Everything has a price. Every negotiation’s a point of entry. Every deal is simply an expression of will. Mutual will.
When life hands you lemons…[Roderick Usher]Make lemonade?[Auguste Dupin]No. First you roll out a multi-media campaign to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce, which only works if you stockpile lemons, control the supply, then a media blitz. Lemon is the only way to say “I love you,” the must-have accessory for engagements or anniversaries. Roses are out, lemons are in. Billboards that say she won’t have sеx with you unless you got lemons. You cut De Beers in on it. Limited edition lemon bracelets, yellow diamonds called lemon drops. You get Apple to call their new operating system OS-Lemón. A little accent over the “o”. You charge 40% more for organic lemons, 50% more for conflict-free lemons. You pack the Capitol with lemon lobbyists, you get a Kardashian to suck a lemon wedge in a leaked sеx tape. Timothée Chalamet wears lemon shoes at Cannes. Get a hashtag campaign. Something isn’t “cool” or “tight” or “awesome”, no, it’s “lemon”. “Did you see that movie?” “Did you go to that concert? It was effing lemon.” Billie Eilish, “OMG, hashtag… lemon.” You get Dr. Oz to recommend four lemons a day and a lemon suppository supplement to get rid of toxins because there’s nothing scarier than toxins. Then you patent the seeds. You write a line of genetic code that makes lemons look just a little more like tіts and you get a gene patent for the tit-lemon DNA sequence. You cross-pollinate, you get those seeds circulating in the wild, and then you sue the farmers for copyright infringement when that genetic code shows up on their land. Sit back, rake in the millions, and then, when you’re done, and you’ve sold your lem-pire for a few billion dollars, then, and only then, you make some f***ing lemonade.[Roderick Usher]
You’re better than a dealer. You’re smarter than a DJ. This is beneath you. And you’re going to kill it. But you’re better than all of this. And the minute you figure that out, you’re going to be unstoppable.[to Perry]
You know what a resolution is really? It’s a deal you make with the future. The future’s coming fast. It’s nearly here.
You know my favorite holiday? New Year’s Eve. You know why? Resolutions. People take that word for granted, they don’t realize just how heavy a word it is. Resolution. Resolve. Means being unwavering, determined, a firm commitment to do something, or not to do something. And most people go their whole, wasted, stupid lives without one minute of true resolution.[to Dupin]
You don’t have to be a tyrant, but if you don’t want to be consistently cruel, then you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority.
Women are the natural leaders of the species. Ancient Egypt had it right.
When I find out who’s been talking to the government, to the goddamn government, against your own blood, there won’t be enough of you left to sue. I’ll have to sue the bloody puddle of gore in the designer shoes.
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They will love you because I love you, and the only thing stronger than love is how f***ing scared they are of getting cut out of the will.[to Juno, about his children]
These people. They want an entire meal for $5 in five minutes then complain when it’s made of s*** and plastic. McDonald’s would serve nothing but kale salad all day and all night long if that’s what people f***ing ate. It’s available, no one buys it. We will get around to funding AIDS research, and diabetes, and heart disease, just as soon as we figure out how to keep our geriatric dicks harder for a few more minutes. What’s the market share on wimpy dicks? 60-70% of the healthcare industry. The Pentagon spent $83 million on Viagra last year. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, the f***ing Supreme Court does its part, tears the autonomy, rips the liberty away from women, shreds not just their choice but their future, their potential. We turn men into cսm fountains and women into factories, cranking out, what, an impoverished workforce, there for the labor and to spend what little they make consuming. And what do we teach them to want? Houses they can’t afford, cars that poison the air, single-serve plastics, clothes made by starving children in third world countries. And they want it so bad that they’re begging for it, they’re screaming for it, they’re insisting upon it.[to Roderick]
There’s no such thing as a step back. You go forward. And if you hit a brick wall, you don’t go back, you go through.[to Roderick]
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