- “Four score and seven years ago…” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
- “I have a dream…” Dr. Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial
- “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- “One small step for (a) man…” Neil Armstrong, just about to walk on the moon
- “Play it again, Sam” and “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
- “You must be talkin’ to me, I’m the only one here.” Robert DeNiro as Travis Bick in Taxi Driver.
- “Charlie, here comes the deuce, and when you speak of me, speak well.” Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham.
In the history of lines from movies, literature, sports, and politics, there are always going to be ones you remember clearly, but its safe to say Trump’s is one you’re going to hear ad nauseum the next couple months.
Just a suggestion, but juuuust maybe he should have gotten more pro forma help with some president-to-president talking points vs. freelancing.
I can almost guarantee a couple million tee shirts will immortalize it, and if you’re going to watch any of the impeachment hearings, using it in a drinking game is begging for trouble.
Content creation, and then there’s the Constitution
“I do” started a life together, “I did” should be a final affirmation” captured the idea of pre-need for a funeral home client, and there’s no problem tapping the Easy Apply button to send my LinkedIn profile to represent me, but that’s neither a one-liner or Shakespeare.
No matter what kind of a deadline I’m facing though, there would never be a moment that I’d consider rewriting (and bastardizing) the Statue of Liberty’s, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” with acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli’s, “who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”
As a content creation professional, writing something that hits exactly the right chord still gives me a thrill. Michael Anthony Hall gives himself a little punch in the arm after writing a bite me! essay for the group in Breakfast Club – sort of like that.
- “Ask not what your country can do for you…” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
- “You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson as Col. Jessup, A Few Good Men
- “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammed Ali
- “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.” Al Pacino getting directions, The Godfather
- “Thou shalt not…” (I guess) Moses gets the writing credit.
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” (Wily Coyote?)
As for Trump and the Constitution, I’m recalling what I believe was a Dodge commercial from the early 70’s. It featured the arch-typical Southern sheriff, standing next to the drivers open window: “You in-a heap of trouble boy.”
Yep. The Constitution was written in long hand a loooong time ago, and yet the Founding Fathers managed to include a process called impeachment for *exactly* what came through in that call to the president of the Ukraine. We may not be at another Lindsey Graham moment yet, but that’s not a one-liner either.
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