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Shrek: My life was perfect and I'm never gonna get it back!
Donkey: If your life was so perfect then why'd you sign it all away to Rumpelstiltskin in the first place?
Shrek: Because I didn't know what I had until it was gone, alright?! [sighs] I didn't know what I had.

Someone once told me
the grass is much greener
on the other side
Well, I paid a visit
(Well, it's possible I missed it)
It seemed different, yet exactly the same

BoJack: Hey, so listen, I really want to be here for you in your time of need, but I'm not really good with funerals or death or families or feelings or people.
Diane: Don't worry. You can wait in the car. It's probably better you don't meet my brothers. They're narrow-minded, mean-spirited dirt-bags.
BoJack: I wish I had brothers growing up. Touch football on the weekends, noogie parades on the reg. Life as an only child can get pretty lonely.
BoJack Horseman, "Live Fast, Diane Nguyen"

Luz: At least you have your future figured out now.
Hunter: At least you can figure out your own.
The Owl House, "Hunting Palismen"

Will: Man, you don't know how lucky you are. You can be with your father whenever you want. You can eat with him and argue with him. He's there for you. You know where my father is?
Carlton: No.
Will: Neither do I.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Home Is Where the Heart Attack Is"

Steven: I don't need this song! I need... I need what you had!
Greg: What?
Steven: I wish I could've grown up at a house like that.
Greg: No you don't!
Steven: Maybe your parents weren't so bad. Maybe they gave you curfews and chaperones and meatloaf f-for a reason!
Greg: Steven, you don't know what they were like!
Steven: They can't be worse then mom's family. I went halfway across the galaxy for them, and this was right here?!
Greg: Steven, I couldn't do anything growing up. Everything I liked, or wore, wanted was always wrong! Trust me, you're better off then I was.
Steven: I can't believe I never realized, you're... you're just like mom!
Greg: You grew up with actual freedom!
Steven: I grew up in a van! I never went to school! I've never been to the doctor until two days ago!
Greg: Steven! You're a Gem! You're not like other kids!
Steven: I could have done all that stuff! My problem isn't that I'm a Gem, my problem is that I'm a UNIVERSE!

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