From 7deb7892244adba09c9682d0762bd60f1fa6573a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wizpizz <76851476+wizpizz@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 17:52:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added quotes from Hamilton (#3038) * Added quotes from Hamilton * Fixed lengths and non-ASCII chars * Removed inappropriate quotes and edited ids * lengths * length Co-authored-by: Miodec --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 654 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 642 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 41a909420..996df663d 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -34824,78 +34824,708 @@ "approvedBy": "ze_or", "id": 5958 }, + { + "text": "Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned, our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain, put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain, and he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 213, + "id": 5959 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the word got around, they said, \"This kid is insane, man\" took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. \"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and the world is gonna know your name. What's your name, man?\"", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 237, + "id": 5960 + }, + { + "text": "There would have been nothin' left to do for someone less astute, he woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution, started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord, tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford. Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on, plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for a new land, In New York you can be a new man.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 426, + "id": 5961 + }, + { + "text": "Sir... I heard your name at Princeton. I was seeking an accelerated course of study when I got sort of out of sorts with a buddy of yours. I may have punched him. It's a blur, sir. He handles the financials?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 207, + "id": 5962 + }, + { + "text": "Yes! I wanted to do what you did. Graduate in two, then join the revolution. He looked at me like I was stupid, I'm not stupid. So how'd you do it? How'd you graduate so fast?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 175, + "id": 5963 + }, + { + "text": "You're an orphan. Of course! I'm an orphan. God, I wish there was a war! Then we could prove that we're worth more than anyone bargained for...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 143, + "id": 5964 + }, + { + "text": "I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot! I'm 'a get a scholarship to King's College. I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish. The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish. I gotta holler just to be heard. With every word, I drop knowledge! I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal tryin' to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable. Only nineteen but my mind is older. These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage I have learned to manage, I don't have a gun to brandish, I walk these streets famished. The plan is to fan this spark into a flame. But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name, I am the A-l-e-x-a-n-d-e-r, we are meant to be. A colony that runs independently. Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly. Essentially, they tax us relentlessly, then King George turns around, runs a spending spree. He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free, so there will be a revolution in this century. Enter me! Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me. I will lay down my life if it sets us free. Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy, and I am not throwing away my shot.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 1234, + "id": 5965 + }, + { + "text": "I dream of life without a monarchy. The unrest in France will lead to 'onarchy? 'Onarchy? How you say, how you say, 'anarchy?' When I fight, I make the other side panicky.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 171, + "id": 5966 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a tailor's apprentice, and I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis. I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance to socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 176, + "id": 5967 + }, + { + "text": "Geniuses, lower your voices. You keep out of trouble and you double your choices. I'm with you, but the situation is fraught. You've got to be carefully taught: If you talk, you're gonna get shot!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 196, + "id": 5968 + }, + { + "text": "Burr, check what we got. Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot, I think your pants look hot, Laurens, I like you a lot. Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot. What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot, poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not, a bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists? Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is! Oh, am I talkin' too loud? Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth. I never had a group of friends before, I promise that I'll make y'all proud.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 559, + "id": 5969 + }, + { + "text": "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory When's it gonna get me? In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me? If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be? Is it like a beat without a melody? See, I never thought I'd live past twenty. Where I come from some get half as many. Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask, we have to make this moment last, that's plenty. Scratch that, this is not a moment, it's the movement where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went? Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand, we roll like Moses, claimin' our promised land. And? If we win our independence? 'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants? Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants? I know the action in the street is excitin', but Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin' I've been readin' 'n writin'. We need to handle our financial situation. Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation? I'm past patiently waitin'. I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation! I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow, for the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 1205, + "id": 5970 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing rich folks love more than going downtown and slummin' it with the poor. They pull up in their carriages and gawk at the students in the common Just to watch them talk. Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded. Uh-oh, but little does he know that his daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza sneak into the city just to watch all the guys at work, work!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 360, + "id": 5971 + }, + { + "text": "I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine. So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane. You want a revolution? I want a revelation, so listen to my declaration: \"We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal\". And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm 'a compel him to include women in the sequel!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 321, + "id": 5972 + }, + { + "text": "Hear ye, hear ye! My name is Samuel Seabury, and I present \"Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress!\" Heed not the rabble who scream revolution, they have not your interests at heart. Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution. Don't let them lead you astray. This Congress does not speak for me. They're playing a dangerous game. I pray the king shows you his mercy. For shame, for shame...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 408, + "id": 5973 + }, + { + "text": "He'd have you all unravel at the sound of screams but the revolution is comin'. The have-nots are gonna win this, it's hard to listen to you with a straight face. Chaos and bloodshed already haunt us, honestly you shouldn't even talk. And what about Boston? Look at the cost, n' all that we've lost n' you talk about Congress?! My dog speaks more eloquently than thee!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 368, + "id": 5974 + }, + { + "text": "As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war. I knew that I was poor, I knew it was the only way to rise up! If they tell my story I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or rise up! We will fight for this land but there's only one man who can give us a command so we can rise up! Understand? It's the only way to rise up! Rise up! Here he comes!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 356, + "id": 5975 + }, + { + "text": "Check it. Can I be real a second? For just a millisecond? Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second? Now I'm the model of a modern major general, the venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all lining up, to put me up on a pedestal, writin' letters to relatives embellishin' my elegance and eloquence, but the elephant is in the room, the truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go... boom! Any hope of success is fleeting, how can I keep leading when the people I'm leading keep retreating? We put a stop to the bleeding as the British take Brooklyn, knight takes rook, but look, we are outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered, outplanned. We gotta make an all out stand. Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 735, + "id": 5976 + }, + { + "text": "Sir, I was a captain under General Montgomery until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec, and well, in summary... I think that I could be of some assistance. I admire how you keep firing on the British from a distance. I have some questions, a couple of suggestions on how to fight instead of fleeing west.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 310, + "id": 5977 + }, + { + "text": "On the contrary. I called you here because our odds are beyond scary. Your reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh. Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff? Don't get me wrong, you're a young man, of great renown. I know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown. Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 346, + "id": 5978 + }, + { + "text": "It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger. I was just like you when I was younger. Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr? Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 184, + "id": 5979 + }, + { + "text": "I'm being honest. I'm working with a third of what our Congress has promised. We are a powder keg about to explode, I need someone like you to lighten the load. So?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 164, + "id": 5980 + }, + { + "text": "I'll write to Congress and tell 'em we need supplies, you rally the guys, master the element of surprise. I'll rise above my station, organize your information, 'til we rise to the occasion of our new nation. Sir!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 213, + "id": 5981 + }, + { + "text": "I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night, laughin' at my sister as she's dazzling the room then you walked in and my heart went \"Boom!\" Tryin' to catch your eye from the side of the ballroom, everybody's dancin' and the band's top volume. Grind to the rhythm as we wine and dine. Grab my sister, and whisper, \"Yo, this one's mine.\" My sister made her way across the room to you and I got nervous, thinking \"What's she gonna do?\" She grabbed you by the arm, I'm thinkin' \"I'm through\" Then you look back at me and suddenly I'm helpless!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 603, + "id": 5982 + }, + { + "text": "Two weeks later, In the living room stressin' My father's stone-faced while you're asking for his blessin'. I'm dying inside, as you wine and dine and I'm tryin' not to cry, 'cause there's nothing that your mind can't do. My father makes his way across the room to you. I panic for a second, thinking, \"we're through\" But then he shakes your hand and says, \"Be true\" And you turn back to me, smiling, and I'm helpless!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 418, + "id": 5983 + }, + { + "text": "Eliza, I don't have a dollar to my name, an acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame. All I have's my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits and my top-notch brain. Insane, your family brings out a different side of me, Peggy confides in me, Angelica tried to take a bite of me, no stress, my love for you is never in doubt. We'll get a little place in Harlem and we'll figure it out. I've been livin' without a family since I was a child. My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild. But I'll never forget my mother's face, that was real, and long as I'm alive, Eliza, swear to God, you'll never feel so helpless!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 649, + "id": 5984 + }, + { + "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days. I remember those soldier boys tripping over themselves to win our praise. I remember that dreamlike candlelight like a dream that you can't quite place, but Alexander, I'll never forget the first time I saw your face. I have never been the same, Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame, And when you said \"Hi,\" I forgot my dang name, set my heart aflame, ev'ry part aflame, this is not a game.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 472, + "id": 5985 + }, + { + "text": "So this is what it feels like to match wits with someone at your level! What the hell is the catch? It's the feeling of freedom, of seein' the light, it's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right? The conversation lasted two minutes, maybe three minutes, ev'rything we said in total agreement, it's a dream and it's a bit of a dance, a bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance. He's a bit of a flirt, but I'm 'a give it a chance. I asked about his fam'ly, did you see his answer? His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance? He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants. Handsome, boy, does he know it! Peach fuzz, and he can't even grow it! I wanna take him far away from this place, then I turn and see my sister's face and she is helpless. And I know she is helpless. And her eyes are just helpless. And I realize three fundamental truths at the exact same time.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 889, + "id": 5986 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a girl in a world in which my only job is to marry rich. My father has no sons so I'm the one who has to social climb for one, so I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious, And Alexander is penniless, Ha! That doesn't mean I want him any less.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 282, + "id": 5987 + }, + { + "text": "I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind. If I tell her that I love him she'd be silently resigned, he'd be mine. She would say, \"I'm fine\", she'd be lying. But when I fantasize at night it's Alexander's eyes, as I romanticize what might have been if I hadn't sized him up so quickly. At least my dear Eliza's his wife; at least I keep his eyes in my life.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 407, + "id": 5988 + }, + { + "text": "Ignore them. Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel. I wish I had your command instead of manning George's journal.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 112, + "id": 5989 + }, + { + "text": "Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep loving anyway. We laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason I'm by her side when so many have tried then I'm willing to wait for it. I'm willing to wait for it.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 307, + "id": 5990 + }, + { + "text": "Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep living anyway. We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died I'm willing to wait for it.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 287, + "id": 5991 + }, + { + "text": "Hamilton doesn't hesitate. He exhibits no restraint. He takes and he takes and he takes and he keeps winning anyway. He changes the game. He plays and he raises the stakes. And if there's a reason he seems to thrive when so few survive, then Goddamnit I'm willing to wait for it.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 279, + "id": 5992 + }, + { + "text": "I have never seen the General so despondent. I have taken over writing all his correspondence. Congress writes, \"George, attack the British forces.\" I shoot back, we have resorted to eating our horses. Local merchants deny us equipment, assistance, they only take British money, so sing a song of sixpence.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 306, + "id": 5993 + }, + { + "text": "Alex, listen. There's only one way for us to win this. Provoke outrage, outright. Don't engage, strike by night. Remain relentless 'til their troops take flight.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 161, + "id": 5994 + }, + { + "text": "I stay at work with Hamilton, we write essays against slavery, and every day's a test of our camaraderie and bravery.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 117, + "id": 5995 + }, + { + "text": "We cut supply lines, we steal contraband, we pick and choose our battles and places to take a stand. And ev'ry day, \"Sir, entrust me with a command,\" and ev'ry day, he dismisses me out of hand.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 193, + "id": 5996 + }, + { + "text": "Washington cannot be left alone to his devices indecisive, from crisis to crisis. The best thing he can do for the revolution is turn n' go back to plantin' tobacco in Mount Vernon.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 181, + "id": 5997 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I don't have your name. I don't have your titles. I don't have your land. But, if you- if you gave me command of a battalion, a group of men to lead, I could fly above my station after the war.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 199, + "id": 5998 + }, + { + "text": "I knew you'd fight until the war was won. But you deserve a chance to meet your son. Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.Look at where you are. Look at where you started. The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough. And if this child shares a fraction of your smile or a fragment of your mind, look out world! That would be enough. I don't pretend to know the challenges you're facing. The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind. But I'm not afraid. I know who I married. So long as you come home at the end of the day that would be enough. We don't need a legacy. We don't need money. If I could grant you peace of mind, If you could let me inside your heart... Oh, let me be a part of the narrative in the story they will write someday. Let this moment be the first chapter: where you decide to stay and I could be enough and we could be enough, that would be enough.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 946, + "id": 5999 + }, + { + "text": "How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower somehow defeat a global superpower? How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire? Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross' flag higher? Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon! An immigrant you know and love who's unafraid to step in! He's constantly confusin', confoundin' the British henchmen. Ev'ryone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 410, + "id": 6000 + }, + { + "text": "Alexander Hamilton, troops are waiting in the field for you. If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide. Oh, Alexander Hamilton, I have soldiers who will yield for you. If we manage to get this right, they'll surrender by early light. The world will never be the same, Alexander...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 294, + "id": 6001 + }, + { + "text": "I was younger then you are now when I was given my first command. I led my men straight into a massacre. I witnessed their deaths firsthand. I made every mistake, I felt the shame rise in me, and even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 253, + "id": 6002 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you what I wish I'd known when I was young and dreamed of glory: You have no control: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story. I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you. But remember from here on in, history has its eyes on you.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 258, + "id": 6003 + }, + { + "text": "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. This is where it gets me: on my feet, the enemy ahead of me. If this is the end of me, at least I have a friend with me, weapon in my hand, a command, and my men with me. Then I remember my Eliza's expecting me... not only that, my Eliza's expecting. We gotta go, gotta get the job done, gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son! Take the bullets out your gun! The bullets out your gun! We move under cover and we move as one through the night, we have one shot to live another day. We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away. We will fight up close, seize the moment and stay in it. It's either that or meet the business end of a bayonet. The code word is 'Rochambeau', dig me? You have your orders now, go, man, go!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 773, + "id": 6004 + }, + { + "text": "A tailor spyin' on the British government! I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it! To my brother's revolutionary covenant I'm runnin' with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin' it! See, that's what happens when you up against the ruffians. We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it! Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction, when you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 401, + "id": 6005 + }, + { + "text": "We negotiate the terms of surrender. I see George Washington smile. We escort their men out of Yorktown. They stagger home single file. Tens of thousands of people flood the streets. There are screams and church bells ringing. And as our fallen foes retreat, I hear the drinking song they're singing...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 302, + "id": 6006 + }, + { + "text": "Oh Philip, when you smile I am undone. My son. Look at my son. Pride is not the word I'm looking for. There is so much more inside me now. Oh Philip, you outshine the morning sun. My son. When you smile, I fall apart. And I thought I was so smart. My father wasn't around. I swear that I'll be around for you. I'll do whatever it takes. I'll make the world safe and sound for you...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 382, + "id": 6007 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me. Are you aware that we're making hist'ry? This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation. The liberty behind deliberation.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 179, + "id": 6008 + }, + { + "text": "Corruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmony and nowhere is it stronger than in Albany. This colony's economy's increasingly stalling and honestly, that's why public service seems to be calling me. I practiced the law, I practic'ly perfected it. I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it. Now for a strong central democracy, If not, then I'll be Socrates throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 431, + "id": 6009 + }, + { + "text": "I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive. You're incredible in court. You're succinct, persuasive. My client needs a strong defense. You're the solution.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 149, + "id": 6010 + }, + { + "text": "Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed for the notion of a nation we now get to build. For once in your life, take a stand with pride. I don't understand how you stand to the side.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 186, + "id": 6011 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep all my plans close to my chest. I'll wait here and see which way the wind will blow. I'm taking my time, watching the afterbirth of a nation, watching the tension grow.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 178, + "id": 6012 + }, + { + "text": "I am sailing off to London. I'm accompanied by someone who always pays. I have found a wealthy husband who will keep me in comfort for all my days. He is not a lot of fun, but there's no one who can match you for turn of phrase. My Alexander.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 242, + "id": 6013 + }, + { + "text": "Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote twenty-nine. Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 435, + "id": 6014 + }, + { + "text": "They are asking me to lead. I am doing the best I can to get the people that I need, I'm asking you to be my right hand man.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 124, + "id": 6015 + }, + { + "text": "How does the bastard orphan, immigrant decorated war vet unite the colonies through more debt? Fight the other founding fathers til he has to forfeit? Have it all, lose it all, you ready for more yet? Treasury Secretary. Washington's the President, ev'ry American experiment sets a precedent. Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him. Pissed him off until we had a two-party system. You haven't met him yet, you haven't had the chance, 'cause he's been kickin' ass as the ambassador to France but someone's gotta keep the American promise. You simply must meet Thomas. Thomas!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 581, + "id": 6016 + }, + { + "text": "France is following us to revolution, there is no more status quo. But the sun comes up and the world still spins. I helped Lafayette draft a declaration, then I said, 'I gotta go. I gotta be in Monticello.' Now the work at home begins...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 238, + "id": 6017 + }, + { + "text": "There's a letter on my desk from the President. Haven't even put my bags down yet. Sally be a lamb, darlin', won'tcha open it? It says the President's assembling a cabinet and that I am to be the Secretary of State, great! And that I'm already Senate-approved... I just got home and now I'm headed up to New York.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 313, + "id": 6018 + }, + { + "text": "Thomas, we are engaged in a battle for our nation's very soul. Can you get us out of the mess we're in? Hamilton's new financial plan is nothing less than government control. I've been fighting for the South alone. Where have you been? We have to win.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 251, + "id": 6019 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, you coulda been anywhere in the world tonight, but you're here with us in New York City. Are you ready for a cabinet meeting? The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton's plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 295, + "id": 6020 + }, + { + "text": "'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' We fought for these ideals; we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote 'em. But Hamilton forgets his plan would have the government assume state's debts. Now, place your bets as to who that benefits: the very seat of government where Hamilton sits. Ooh, if the shoe fits, wear it. If New York's in debt, why should Virginia bear it? Uh! Our debts are paid, I'm afraid. Don't tax the South cuz we got it made in the shade. In Virginia, we plant seeds in the ground. We create. You just wanna move our money around. This financial plan is an outrageous demand, and it's too many damn pages for any man to understand. Stand with me in the land of the free and pray to God we never see Hamilton's candidacy. Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky. Imagine what gon' happen when you try to tax our whisky.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 935, + "id": 6021 + }, + { + "text": "Thomas. That was a real nice declaration. Welcome to the present, we're running a real nation. Would you like to join us, or stay mellow, Doin' whatever the hell it is you do in Monticello? If we assume the debts, the union gets A new line of credit, a financial diuretic. How do you not get it? If we're aggressive and competitive The union gets a boost. You'd rather give it a sedative? A civics lesson from a slaver. Hey neighbor, Your debts are paid cuz you don't pay for labor. \"We plant seeds in the South. We create.\" Yeah, keep ranting, we know who's really doing the planting. And another thing, Mr. Age of Enlightenment, Don't lecture me about the war, you didn't fight in it. You think I'm frightened of you, man? We almost died in a trench while you were off getting high with the French. Thomas Jefferson, always hesitant with the President, reticent, there isn't a plan he doesn't jettison. Madison, you're mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine. Damn, you're in worse shape than the national debt is in.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 1020, + "id": 6022 + }, + { + "text": "My dearest, Angelica, \"tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day\" I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play. They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly, I'm a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain, Madison is Banquo, Jefferson's Macduff And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 396, + "id": 6023 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy, daddy, look. My name is Philip. I am a poet. I wrote this poem just to show it. And I just turned nine. You can write rhymes, but you can't write mine. I practice French and play piano with my mother. I have a sister but I want a little brother. My daddy's trying to start America's bank. Un deux trois quatre cinq!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 322, + "id": 6024 + }, + { + "text": "My dearest Alexander, You must get through to Jefferson. Sit down with him and compromise, don't stop 'til you agree your fav'rite older sister, Angelica, reminds you there's someone in your corner all the way across the sea. In a letter I received from you two weeks ago I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase. It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you've consumed my waking days. It says: \"My dearest Angelica\" With a comma after \"dearest.\" You've written \"My dearest, Angelica.\" Anyway, all this to say I'm coming home this summer at my sister's invitation, I'll be there with your fam'ly if you make your way upstate. I know you're very busy, I know your work's important, but I'm crossing the ocean and I just can't wait. You won't be an ocean away. You will only be a moment away...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 815, + "id": 6025 + }, + { + "text": "That's when I began to pray: Lord, show me how to say no to this. I don't know how to say no to this.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 101, + "id": 6026 + }, + { + "text": "The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power, a system he can shape however he wants. The Virginians emerge with the nation's capital. And here's the piece de resistance: No one else was in the room where it happened.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 229, + "id": 6027 + }, + { + "text": "No one really knows how the parties get to yes. The pieces that are sacrificed in ev'ry game of chess. We just assume that it happens. But no one else is in the room where it happens.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 183, + "id": 6028 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe we can solve one problem with another and win a victory for the Southerners, in other words- a quid pro quo.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 114, + "id": 6029 + }, + { + "text": "My God! In God we trust. But we'll never really know what got discussed. Click-boom then it happened. And no one else was in the room where it happened.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 152, + "id": 6030 + }, + { + "text": "When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don't get a win unless you play in the game. Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it. You get nothing if you wait for it, wait for it, wait!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 206, + "id": 6031 + }, + { + "text": "God help and forgive me, I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me. What do you want, Burr? If you stand for nothing, Burr, then what do you fall for?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 156, + "id": 6032 + }, + { + "text": "The art of the compromise, hold your nose and close your eyes. We want our leaders to save the day, We dream of a brand new start, but we dream in the dark for the most part. Dark as a tomb where it happens. I've got to be in the room where it happens.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 252, + "id": 6033 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, Wall Street thinks you're great. You'll always be adored by the things you create. But upstate, people think you're crooked! And Schuyler's seat was up for grabs, so I took it.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 180, + "id": 6034 + }, + { + "text": "I changed parties to seize the opportunity I saw. I swear, your pride will be the death of us all! Beware: it goeth before the fall...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 134, + "id": 6035 + }, + { + "text": "The issue on the table: France is on the verge of war with England. Do we provide aid and troops to our French allies or do we stay out of it? Remember, my decision on this matter is not subject to congressional approval. The only person you have to convince is me. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 311, + "id": 6036 + }, + { + "text": "When we were on death's door, when we were needy, we made a promise, we signed a treaty. We needed money and guns and half a chance. Who provided those funds? In return, they didn't ask for land, only a promise that we'd lend a hand and stand with them if they fought against oppressors, and revolution is messy but now is the time to stand. Stand with our brothers as they fight against tyranny. I know that Alexander Hamilton is here and he would rather not have this debate. I'll remind you that he is not Secretary of State. He knows nothing of loyalty, smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty, desperate to rise above his station, everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 697, + "id": 6037 + }, + { + "text": "You must be out of your Goddamn mind if you think the President is gonna bring the nation to the brink of meddling in the middle of a military mess, a game of chess, where France is Queen and Kingless. We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket. Would you like to take it out and ask it? \"Should we honor our treaty, King Louis' head?\" \"Uh... do whatever you want, I'm super dead.\"", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 399, + "id": 6038 + }, + { + "text": "Have you an ounce of regret? You accumulate debt, you accumulate power, yet in their hour of need, you forget.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 110, + "id": 6039 + }, + { + "text": "Lafayette's a smart man, he'll be fine. And before he was your friend, he was mine. If we try to fight in every revolution in the world, we never stop. Where do we draw the line?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 178, + "id": 6040 + }, + { + "text": "Ev'ry action has its equal, opposite reactions. Thanks to Hamilton, our cab'net's fractured into factions. Try not to crack under the stress, we're breaking down like fractions. We smack each other in the press, and we don't print retractions. I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion. The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion. Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration as Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 482, + "id": 6041 + }, + { + "text": "I'm in the cabinet. I am complicit in watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it. If Washington isn't gon' listen to disciplined dissidents, this is the difference: This kid is out!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 181, + "id": 6042 + }, + { + "text": "If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I'm gone. Like the scripture says: \"Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.\" They'll be safe in the nation we've made. I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree. A moment alone in the shade, at home in this nation we've made.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 342, + "id": 6043 + }, + { + "text": "Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will view them with indulgence; And that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellowcitizens, the benign influence of good laws Under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, Of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 826, + "id": 6044 + }, + { + "text": "They say George Washington's yielding his power and stepping away. 'Zat true? I wasn't aware that was something a person could do. I'm perplexed. Are they gonna keep on replacing whoever's in charge? If so, who's next? There's nobody else in their country who looms quite as large...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 283, + "id": 6045 + }, + { + "text": "This is great! He's out of power. He holds no office. And he just destroyed President John Adams, the only other significant member of his party.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 145, + "id": 6046 + }, + { + "text": "She courted me. Escorted me to bed and when she had me in a corner that's when Reynolds extorted me for a sordid fee. I paid him quarterly. I may have mortally wounded my prospects but my papers are orderly! As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered History. Check it again against your list n' see consistency. I never spent a cent that wasn't mine, you sent the dogs after my scent, that's fine. Yes, I have reasons for shame but I have not committed treason and sullied my good name. As you can see I have done nothing to provoke legal action. Are my answers to your satisfaction?", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 603, + "id": 6047 + }, + { + "text": "You and your words flooded my senses. Your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. I'm re-reading the letters you wrote me. I'm searching and scanning for answers in every line, for some kind of sign, and when you were mine the world seemed to burn.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 302, + "id": 6048 + }, + { + "text": "You published the letters she wrote you. You told the whole world how you brought this girl into our bed. In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives. Do you know what Angelica said When she read what you'd done? She said, \"You have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun.\"", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 292, + "id": 6049 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. So this is what you're gonna do: Stand there like a man until Eacker is in front of you. When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air. This will put an end to the whole affair.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 189, + "id": 6050 + }, + { + "text": "I spend hours in the garden. I walk alone to the store, and it's quiet uptown. I never liked the quiet before. I take the children to church on Sunday, a sign of the cross at the door, and I pray. That never used to happen before.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 230, + "id": 6051 + }, + { + "text": "If I could spare his life, If I could trade his life for mine, he'd be standing here right now and you would smile, and that would be enough. I don't pretend to know the challenges we're facing. I know there's no replacing what we've lost and you need time. But I'm not afraid, I know who I married. Just let me stay here by your side, That would be enough.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 357, + "id": 6052 + }, + { + "text": "Ev'ry action has an equal, opposite reaction. John Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he's in traction. Poor Alexander Hamilton? He is missing in action. So now I'm facing Aaron Burr! With his own faction.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 210, + "id": 6053 + }, + { + "text": "But when all is said and all is done, Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 75, + "id": 6054 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Alexander: I am slow to anger, but I toe the line as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine. I look back on where I failed, and in every place I checked, the only common thread has been your disrespect. Now you call me \"amoral,\" a \"dangerous disgrace,\" if you've got something to say, name a time and place, face to face.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 334, + "id": 6055 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Vice President, I am not the reason no one trusts you. No one knows what you believe. I will not equivocate on my opinion, I have always worn it on my sleeve. Even if I said what you think I said, you would need to cite a more specific grievance. Here's an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements. Hey, I have not been shy. I am just a guy in the public eye tryin' to do my best for our republic. I don't wanna fight, But I won't apologize for doing what's right.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 474, + "id": 6056 + }, + { + "text": "Burr, your grievance is legitimate. I stand by what I said, every bit of it. You stand only for yourself. It's what you do. I can't apologize because it's true.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 160, + "id": 6057 + }, + { + "text": "I watched Hamilton examine the terrain. I wish I could tell you what was happ'ning in his brain. This man has poisoned my political pursuits!", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 141, + "id": 6058 + }, + { + "text": "Hamilton drew first position. Looking, to the world, like a man on a mission. This is a soldier with a marksman's ability. The doctor turned around so he could have deniability.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 177, + "id": 6059 + }, + { + "text": "They won't teach you this in your classes, but look it up, Hamilton was wearing his glasses. Why? If not to take deadly aim? It's him or me, the world will never be the same. I had only one thought before the slaughter: This man will not make an orphan of my daughter.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 268, + "id": 6060 + }, + { + "text": "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. Is this where it gets me, on my feet, sev'ral feet ahead of me? I see it coming, do I run or fire my gun or let it be? There is no beat, no melody. Burr, my first friend, my enemy, maybe the last face I ever see, If I throw away my shot, is this how you remember me? What if this bullet is my legacy? Legacy. What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me. America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me. You let me make a difference. A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up. I'm running out of time. I'm running, and my time's up. Wise up. Eyes up. I catch a glimpse of the other side. Laurens leads a soldiers' chorus on the other side. My son is on the other side. He's with my mother on the other side. Washington is watching from the other side. Teach me how to say goodbye. Rise up, rise up, rise up, Eliza, My love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side. Raise a glass to freedom...", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 1094, + "id": 6061 + }, + { + "text": "I'll give him this: his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I tried.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 105, + "id": 6062 + }, + { + "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", + "source": "Hamilton", + "length": 134, + "id": 6063 + }, { "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", "source": "Mark Twain", "length": 113, - "id": 5959 + "id": 6064 }, { "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "source": "Colin Powell", "length": 103, - "id": 5960 + "id": 6065 }, { "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", "source": "Conrad Hilton", "length": 113, - "id": 5961 + "id": 6066 }, { "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", "source": "Zig Ziglar", "length": 116, - "id": 5962 + "id": 6067 }, { "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.", "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", "length": 67, - "id": 5963 + "id": 6068 }, { "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", "source": "Barack Obama", "length": 193, - "id": 5964 + "id": 6069 }, { "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.", "source": "Helen Keller", "length": 114, - "id": 5965 + "id": 6070 }, { "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", "source": "Charles Swindoll", "length": 81, - "id": 5966 + "id": 6071 }, { "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", "source": "Oprah Winfrey", "length": 132, - "id": 5967 + "id": 6072 }, { "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "source": "Harriet Tubman", "length": 165, - "id": 5968 + "id": 6073 }, { "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", "source": "Winston Churchill", "length": 86, - "id": 5969 + "id": 6074 }, { "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike’s mom and Josh’s mom and my mom. And I’m sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren’t lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we’ve ended up. And it’s all because of me that we’re here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I’m scared to close my eyes and I’m scared to open them. I’m going to die out here.", "source": "The Blair Witch Project", "length": 649, "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5970 + "id": 6075 } ] }