Just to set the record straight, I don't love you!
Well I don't love you! I don't even know what made me think I could like you: you're so cute and sweet and nice and perky!
Well it's better than being a cranky old fart!
I'm not cranky! There are just certain things that irritate me!
Yeah, everything irritates you! You wouldn't know happiness if it bit you in the ass!
Oh why don't you bite me in the ass!?
Chris Connor: Oh, why don't you bite yourself in the ass!? Your head's right there, anyway!
'[outraged] Just go away, would you!?
Ah, I'm going! Goodnight!
[stutters angrily] GOOD NIGHT!
YOU WANNA HAVE DINNER WITH ME SOMETIME!?
[Becker walks into Ming's Chinese restaurant]
Hey, Ming! How's it going, buddy?
MMing
Becker, there are 5000 Chinese restaurants in this town. You wanna be a buddy, try one of them!
Nice attitude there. Is that how you treat all your good customers!?
MMing
When you come in at 5:59 just to get the 'Early Bird Special', and then use so many coupons I end up owing you money, you're not a good customer, you're a pain in my ass!
I told you I don't wanna sell these.
You're not, they're selling themselves.
You don't want me to do that. Look how much money you made.
[Hector hands a big wad of money to Jake]
Hey, you know, I don't care. Listen, what I have on display up here reflects who I am, all right? And I want this to be one corner of the world where decent people can by and not be offended. So unwrap these magazines and put 'em down there.
What about your "corner of the world"?
Oh, my corner of the world is still gonna be pure. However, down there in Porn Town, that's where Jake pays the rent.
Look, someone in your department shut down a residential care facility in my neighborhood and threw everyone out into the street. Now I'm here because I want something done about it!
DSDeputy Secretary
Wow. You sound pretty upset.
Well, I am. You know, I've been on the phone all afternoon calling every city agency I can think of, and all I got was the typical beureaucratic runaround.
DSDeputy Secretary
Well that's terrible, you shouldn't have been treated like that.
DSDeputy Secretary
Well of course I do!
DSDeputy Secretary
Oh dear no.
...Well, maybe you didn't understand me...
DSDeputy Secretary
No, I understood you perfectly. You've discovered a social injustice, and as a concerned citizen you've come to your government to demand some action.
DSDeputy Secretary
It's not gonna happen. But that look on your face, oh, that took me back! What was that, righteous indignation? I used to feel like that when I first started working here forty-two years ago.
Yeah, well - you've been in this office forty-two years?
DSDeputy Secretary
Yeah. Same desk, same fake plant, same window. Doesn't open. None of them do. Otherwise we'd all jump out. But you were saying?
Look, I told you! Either reopen the facility, or make some arrangements to take care of these people!
DSDeputy Secretary
And I told you, I can't help.
But you're the deputy secretary of social services!
DSDeputy Secretary
It's just a title.
Dammit! Look, listen - you're in charge here, you're responsible, you work for the city!
DSDeputy Secretary
You're not listening! I can't help. Nobody can help. That facility is not going to reopen, and I'll tell you why: there is no money! There's no money because the federal government cut taxes, which is all anybody seems to care about anymore. That means less money for the state, which means less money for the city, which means we had to cut services, which means fewer cops, fewer firemen, bad air, bad water and crappy schools which will turn out another generation of voters too stupid and greedy to care about anything else besides cutting taxes! So don't you come in here and tell me to fix your problem, because there's not a DAMN THING I CAN DO ABOUT IT!... Where did that come from?
