Call Me Lucky Quotes

Barry Crimmins: I'm whatever threatens you. I'm a communist with AIDS and I bite.

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Barry Crimmins: You know who the biggest suckheads in the world are? The people who think they're clever by saying, 'Well, I happen to be politically IN-correct.' And now you get to act like you're a cutting edge rebel, because you're reinforcing the oppressive status quo! You sack of fucking rancid horse assholes!

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Barry Crimmins: Well, there's a couple of things I really still feel I have to accomplish, and if I do I think I'll be able to put my little tile in the grand mosaic of life. And those two things are, of course, I'd like to overthrow the government of the United States, and I'd like to close the Catholic church.

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Barry Crimmins: We have to have enough guts, to open up our ears, and to open up our hearts; to listen, look, watch, believe and testify - about what really happens to innocence in this world. We have to take care of innocence in this world. And we have to be brave enough to stand up and tell the truth about what happens to innocence in this world. So, tell the truth, tell everyone the truth, tell anyone the truth. Because your lives depend on it. My life depends on it. And people who really can't be heard - really depend on it. They really depend on it.

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Barry Crimmins: I have heard the sound of one hand clapping and it haunts me, stays with me my whole life.

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Barry Crimmins: So it's just sort of on this site. You know, and I don't think we need to, I don't think there's any need to build shrines to demons. I hope that there's been a lot more good spirits here than that one awful one, and that generations of kids have grown up and visited and played in that house without anything happening to them except things that should happen to kids.

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Patton Oswalt: Something that I've always remembered about him is we cannot surrender being the rude, funny, obnoxious truth tellers. We cannot surrender that. That's our best weapon.

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