Line #20 Quotes/BananaRepublic


1	!!{{Film}} -- Live-Action
2	->''"He’s killed, intimidated or bribed half the officials from here to Chile. There’s only one law down there: [[TheMobBossIsScarier Sanchez’s law.]]"''
3	-->-- '''Felix Leiter''', ''Film/LicenceToKill''
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5	->''"Originally established as a homeland for free American slaves, [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny it's been enslaved]] by one dictator after another ever since. The latest was American-educated, self-declared president Andre Baptiste. President Baptiste ''was'' my best customer, but I was in no hurry to meet him; he'd gotten a reputation for routinely hacking off the limbs of those who opposed him. His seven-year civil war has been described as 'a relentless campaign of sadistic, wanton violence.' That kind of sums up Andy for me."''
6	-->-- '''Yuri Orlov''', ''Film/LordOfWar''
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8	!!{{Literature}}
9	->"It's a glorious thing," said Cronin, half jestingly, "to be able to discharge a government, and insert one of your own choosing, in these days."\
10	"Oh, it is only amatter of business," said Vincenti, stopping and offering the stump of his cigar to a monkey that swung down from a lime tree; "and that is what moves the world of today. That extra real on the price of bananas had to go. We took the shortest way of removing it."
11	-->--Creator/OHenry: ''Cabbages and Kings'', chapter 16: "Rouge et Noir"
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13	!!LiveActionTV
14	->''"This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the protestors away? Where are they? This kind of behavior is ''never'' tolerated in Boraqua. You shout like that, they put you in jail. ''Right'' away. No trial, no nothing. Journalists, we have a ''special jail'' for journalists. You are stealing? Right to jail. You are playing music too loud? Right to jail, right away. Driving too fast? Jail. Slow? Jail. You are charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses, you ''right to'' jail. You undercook fish? Believe it or not, ''jail.'' You overcook chicken, ''also'' jail. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, ''jail''. Right away. We have the best patients in the world. Because of jail."''
15	-->--'''Raul''', ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' ("Sister City")
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17	!!{{Podcast}}s
18	->'''Jay:''' So, The Berserker here (aka Wrestling/JohnNord, Nord the Barbarian, whichever you like), he was in from the Wrestling/{{A\|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA and the Pacific-Northwest, and he had [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute similar manners and gimmicks]] [to] Wrestling/BruiserBrody, who was stabbed to death in a shower after a wrestling match in UsefulNotes/PuertoRico. That was horrific, it was a disgusting scandal.\
19	'''Steve:''' Plus it ruined wrestling over there.\
20	'''Jay:''' Rightly so. There were witnesses there, including Tony Atlas. Everyone knew what happened. Man [[KangarooCourt walks off scot free.]]
21	-->-- ''WebVideo/OSWReview'' on Wrestling/{{WWF}} ''Survivor Series '91''
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23	!!{{Video Game}}s
24	->''"{{UsefulNotes/Colombia}}. From what I've heard, even the butterflies are corrupt and smuggling drugs."''
25	-->-- '''47''', ''VideoGame/HitmanCodename47''
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27	->''"You might be surprised to learn than 93% of investments are ethical, eco-friendly, and wide open to market collapse. A crash can strike without warning, wiping clean a lifetime of work and saving to [[MoralMyopia destroy your future, and the future of your family.]] The people at Third World Bank have different ideas, capturing the earning potential of underdeveloped countries and spreading your money across a wide range of tobacco, defense, and pharmaceutical investments. Third World, keeping ''your'' money safe -- no matter the cost."''
28	-->-- '''Third World Bank''' advert, Radio/GTARadio
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30	!!WebOriginal
31	->And all of the guards are speaking Spanish, because I think it was a legal requirement in the ‘80s that all action movies had to take place in the jungles of either Vietnam or South America.
32	-->-- ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' on ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''
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34	->UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}} has managed to cram an awful lot of history into its few decades of independence -- or should that be [[{{Spoonerism}} a lot of awful history]]. From UsefulNotes/IdiAmin to the Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda has suffered dictatorship, war, dictatorship, war, dictatorship and war. And the ebola virus.
35	-->-- '''Rational Wiki'''
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37	->These fucks need to learn that you have to do some research before you agree to perform in a country that you can’t even pick out on the Franchise/CarmenSandiego map. You know why I’ve never eaten at Del Taco or Yoshinoya? Because I do my research by Yelping that shit first; and when the first three reviews that come up sound like the strained moans of a haunted spirit, I know to stay away, no matter how good a deal $0.59 tacos sound.
38	-->-- ''[[http://dlisted.com/2013/12/21/ruh-roh-mariah-carey-maybe-kinda-performed-for-a-dictator-again/ Dlisted]]'', "Ruh Roh: Music/MariahCarey Maybe Kinda Performed For A Dictator Again"
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40	->Millions of [[{{UsefulNotes/Brazil}} Brazilians]] have been protesting in the streets for more than a year over the superfluous spending on stadiums that'll be abandoned and probably turned into shantytowns two weeks after the games. The government's solution? Spend ''even more money'' coming up with sci-fi-looking measures to curb the protests...In other words, Brazil has finally caught up to the dystopian future shown in the movie ''{{Film/Brazil}}'' from 1985.
41	-->-- ''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-scenes-from-world-cup-right-out-dystopian-future/#ixzz33bj7F7Mm "4 Photos From the World Cup Straight Out of a Dystopia"]]

Context Quotes / BananaRepublic