<p>"The lunchbox has landed"
-The Full Monty
Just kidding. I just thought I'd mention my favorite movie quote, because I adore movies.</p>
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Will I be seen as inconsistent, or sophisticated?
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<p>The admissions office isn't going to be carefully analyzing your application to determine whether you espouse a consistent personal philosophy. They'll take your movie line as an unimportant but colorful detail that helps them see you as a human being.</p>
<p>"Happiness is only real when shared"
-Christopher McCandleless
Into the Wild</p>
<p>Dorothy: Well, I—I think that it, that it wasn't enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em — and it's that — if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?" The Wizard of Oz</p>
<p>i had so much trouble finding a quote i didn't hate after a week.</p>
<p>Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit.</p>
<p>-Wall Street </p>
<p>I'm applying for financial engineering so self-explanatory :)</p>
<p>I freakin' loved Princeton's app. It was the only college that actually asked questions beyond "Why do you want to attend (insert brand name university here)?"</p>
<p>My quote was,
"That's the last time you stick a knife in me! Y'hear me?"
- The Royal Tenenbaums</p>
<p>I put the Lolcatz website as my favorite website... I sincerely hope that a) the admissions officer visits it and b) has an strange sense of humor.</p>
<p>"Would you be willin' to trade, all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here, and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take...our FREEDOM!"</p>
<p>-Braveheart</p>
<p>I'm still trying to decide mine.</p>
<p>Here's one I'm not putting down, but still love in this context.
"Of course, he was a Harvard graduate. That might be grounds for justifiable homicide. " From Rope, although the story is based on two U Chicago students...</p>
<p>mangopeachsalsa: take a look at Wake Forest's supplement. I ended up not applying there, but I love their questions.
<a href="http://www.wfu.edu/admissions/pdf/supp.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.wfu.edu/admissions/pdf/supp.pdf</a></p>
<p>So, I'm a junior and haven't really applied yet (I will next year), but I would pick one of the following if I needed to pick today:</p>
<p>"Nihilists! **** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."</p>
<p>--The Big Lebowski (Walter Sobchak)</p>
<p>"So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."</p>
<p>--Fargo (Marge Gunderson)</p>
<p>I love the Coen brothers!</p>
<p>"What is learning, it's paying attention. It's opening you up to the big ball of **** that we call life. And what's the worst thing that could happen is you get bit in the ass. Well let me tell you my ass looks like hamburger meat, but i can still sit down "
Accepted</p>
<p>well im a ridiculously obsessed hp fans (go at midnight dressed up for all the books) so my quote, is, obviously, "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live". its not funny or anything, but it is my favorite so im being honest.</p>
<p>@piccolojunior
Well, that's a crappy quote.
What sort of bland person would put that? :P</p>
<p>@padfoot
Rules 1 and 2</p>
<p>Please, please tell me you're not a 4channer...</p>
<p>"come over here big boy, lets get you outta those pants"</p>
<p>"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." </p>
<p>The Godfather</p>
<p>"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. "</p>
<p>A bronx tale</p>
<p>I put a quote from the movie van wilder.
It wasn't a dirty one, was pretty damn good but I don't know if they'll be like "oh, van wilder wthell?"</p>
<p>Mine's from lord of the rings, because I'm a total lotrgeek :D. Call me paranoid or solipsistic, but I'm not going to say what it was until after Jan. 1st. </p>
<p>But I put Forrest Gump as my favorite movie (which isn't a lie, because I have like 8 movies that are tied for #1) because my dad wouldn't let me put lotr.</p>
<p>"If you're so smart, tell me something, how come you go to M.I.T.
for 8 years to become a cable repairman?" - Judd Hirsch in
Independence Day</p>
<p>Woman: How do you write women so well?
Melvin: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.
-As Good As It Gets</p>
<p>Well, I doubt I'll get accepted anyways.</p>
<p>Maybe, Maybe not, Maybe F\/ck Yourself. </p>
<ul>
<li>The Departed</li>
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