Spend enough time on an island, you begin to forget there's a whole world out there. A world where the rules are different.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I'm not a joiner. I never have been. But I'm willing to do it now.
Loyalty. It's supposed to mean something.
Sand has its virtues. On sand, nothing is fixed. Nothing is permanent. And fates change so quickly. Yesterday I was a whore of little consequence. Easily dismissed, easily forgotten. Today I am a madame, with an income, and allies. A woman who has learned the most important of lessons: never let anyone stand between you and your ambitions.
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In most cases, a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason: everyone else.
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Great men aren't made great by politics. They aren't made great by prudence or propriety. They are, every last one of them, made great by one thing and one thing only: the relentless pursuit of a better world. The great men don't give up that pursuit; they don't know how.
Don't be sorry. Do your fucking job.
Stop telling me what it is you think I think. Do you know what it is I want? I want to figure out a way of selling everyone's shit here for more tomorrow than I did yesterday. I want to establish a future here that isn't measured in months.
When I came here, I had nothing but my name and my wits. A man in a place like this, surviving on those two things alone, he suffers indignities, slights, ridicule. But I overcame it. I used the wits to build the name. Jesus Christ, what's become of my name?
If your friends aren't capable of protecting themselves, I'd argue they aren't worth protecting.
I don't want to earn money. I don't want to join another crew. If we're being honest, I don't really want to be on this crew a day longer than is absolutely necessary. I don't want to be a pirate. I'm not interested in the life. I'm not interested in the fighting, not interested in the ships. I don't care much for the sea, while we're on the subject. But being a pirate on this crew for a little while longer, it offers me an opportunity I don't believe I can find anywhere else on earth--one big prize. And with it freedom. From water, from hunger, from wages.
It isn't about getting them to like you; it's about reminding them how much they dislike each other.
What I've found in my experience is the more elusive the puzzle, the more painfully obvious its ultimate solution. One just has to be willing to see it.
You asked for better captains. I give you Captain Jack Rackham.
[to Jack] I've put a lot of bodies in the ground for you, haven't I? Watched your back. Cleaned up your messes. Carried out your plans. I didn't always understand. Didn't always agree. But I did it. Some fucked-up, awful shit 'cause I knew you needed it done. I don't think the night you had last night comes even close to something to bitch about.
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