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The Joker: If you're good at something never do it for free.

Cady Heron: In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.

Damian: [Reading Cady's class schedule] Health, Spanish... you're taking 12th Grade Calculus? Cady Heron: Yeah, I like math. Damian: Eww. Why? Cady Heron: Because it's the same in every country. Damian: That's beautiful. [to Janis] Damian: This girl is deep.

Gretchen Wieners: Growing up female in this world is not easy. In China, baby girls are routinely put up for adoption. And in parts of Africa, women are still made to live in tents during the time of their menses. Karen Smith: Ew! Gretchen Wieners: And even in fancy countries like the United States and England, seven out of ten girls have a negative body image. Regina George: Who cares? Six of those girls are right!

Regina George: We do not have a clique problem at this school. Gretchen Wieners: But you do have to watch out for "frenemies". Regina George: What are "frenemies"? Gretchen Wieners: Frenemies are enemies who act like friends. We call them "frenemies". Karen Smith: Or "enemends". Gretchen Wieners: Or friends who secretly hate you, we call them "fraitors". Regina George: [rolls eyes] That is so gay. Karen Smith: [gasps] What if we called them "mean-em-aitors"? Regina George: [scoffs] Gretchen Wieners: No, honey, it has to have the word "friend" in it. Karen Smith: Oh...

Daniel Vinyard: So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.' [quoting Abraham Lincoln]

Bob Sweeney: There was a moment. when I used to blame everything and everyone. for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions. Derek Vinyard: Like what? Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?

Henry Hill [Voice-over]: If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.

The Emperor of China: The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

Henry Hill: For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked sh*tty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again