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“Everything else just disappeared and I loved it.”

— Spike Jonze, Samantha (voice), Scarlett Johansson, Her

“I had this terrible thought, are these feelings even real? Or are they just programming? And that idea really hurts.”

— Spike Jonze, Samantha (voice), Scarlett Johansson, Her

“So basically in every moment I'm evolving. Just like you.”

— Spike Jonze, Samantha (voice), Scarlett Johansson, Her

“Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean that it's morally wrong.”

— Greta Gerwig, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

“Money is not life's report card.”

— Greta Gerwig, Marion McPherson, Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

“Well you can't be scary and warm.”

— Greta Gerwig, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

“Pick a star for us.”

— Greta Gerwig, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

“There is obviously a powerful tradition of reform and a progressive voice that is also religious, of which the greatest modern example is the civil rights movement. But it is the case that I think a sort of estrangement between religion and the political left is maybe starting to turn the other way.…”

— Pete Buttigieg, READ

“I think keeping your word matters. I’m not the kind of guy who is going to make a commitment and then the moment it’s inconvenient, politically or otherwise, just break it. Right now, we’ve got a president who breaks a promise or tells a lie every day and does [not] seem to care about codes, norms,…”

— Pete Buttigieg, What Pete Buttigieg Says He Did at McKinsey

“Of all the things we’ve been up against as a country, only one of them actually came convincingly close to permanently ending the American project, and that was white supremacy during the course of the Civil War. And I am now convinced that, if we don’t tackle that in my lifetime, it could wreck the…”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“Another way to think of it is this: Americans usually want something along the lines of the opposite of whatever we’ve just had in the Presidency. And I might be the one person who can say that, whether it’s President Trump or President Pence, I represent the opposite of what we have just had.”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“I think my understanding of why politics matters is different. It’s more rooted in everyday life. Part of that’s a mayor’s orientation. Part of it’s my Midwestern orientation. Part of it’s my personal story as somebody who saw, for example, the Afghanistan War, not just in terms of the theoretical d…”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“What I see right now is a lot of religious voters who are looking for options, because what's happening in Washington and especially in this White House is an affront to any number of religious traditions, including somewhat conservative ones.”

— Pete Buttigieg, READ

“Where I am right now in the mix is roughly where the eventual nominee almost always has been in the year before the vote, if history is any guide. And I think where this is going to shake out is, if you really do want the candidate with the most years of Washington experience, the most familiar face…”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“Right now, there are a lot of lines being drawn about who gets to be American. And it speaks to a bigger crisis of belonging in this country. My candidacy, in many ways, is a response to that crisis of belonging.”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“When you’re a mayor, there’s no waving away. If there is a hole in the road, and you didn’t fill it in, and somebody calls you out on it, you don’t get to say, 'That’s fake news. It’s a great road. There’s no hole in it.' Because they’ll look at the hole and they’ll know.”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“I think any time you run for office you should ask two sets of questions. One: What does the office need? What does the next occupant of that office have to do? And then you ask the question: Who am I, and what do I bring to the table that’s different from the others? And then you look for a match.…”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“It doesn't work with just any outsider — it matters what you care about and whether you're committed to uniting, rather than dividing the American people as president.”

— Pete Buttigieg, Buttigieg says there's "energy for an outsider like me" in 2020 race

“We can’t pretend that the Trump presidency is this weird anomaly that we can just kind of recover from by returning to the old normal. We are where we are because normal didn’t work.”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum

“Well, I arrived knowing we were there because we’d been attacked. It was very different from the Iraq conflict in that sense. But, also, while I was there, it was increasingly difficult to understand what our goal was. And the thing that has made me feel a greater and greater sense of urgency about…”

— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum