The Good Wife Quotes

Peter: You know the one thing I hate more than a backroom deal, Eli, is a failed backroom deal.

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Kalinda: Your office is... small.
Cary: Yes. Small, but pure.
Kalinda: So, in the third year, do you get a window?

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(on the phone)
Alicia: Could... we talk sometime?
Will: We can talk anytime.
Alicia: No, I mean... We need a moment. Just a moment when things don't seem so all over the place.
Will: Okay, that's probably not now.
Alicia: (chuckles) No.

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Will: I heard peer review was rough.
Alicia: A bit. How important is it?
Will: I don't know. We're trying to figure that out. You think it's stupid?
Alicia: I think it encourages people to denigrate each other to save their jobs.
Will: I read your reviews. You didn't.

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Diane: Well, I think that worked. I mean, it was painful, but it worked...What's wrong?
(Kurt walks close and kisses Diane)
(Someone knock on the door)
Diane: Go away!
Will: But she hasn't lost perspective?
Alicia: No. She's fighting harder.
Will: Unfortunately. I need her to fight harder at work, too.

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Alicia: I...just for one minute wanted to think that we were doing the right thing.
Will: But we are doing the right thing.
Alicia: But for the wrong reason.
Will: Who do you know is doing something for the right reason? I would love to meet them, because my guess is, after five minutes of questioning, we'll find the wrong reason.

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(after the motion to dismiss Diane falls short)
Derrick: You had me fire my head of litigation and put you in.
Julius: (grinning) Yeah.
Derrick: Why?
Julius: I don't like you.

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Diane: We're the perfect couple.
Will: Yeah, everything but the sex.

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