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Of course, once you start listing favorite quotes from The Wire, there's no end to it. So many great lines! So I'll limit myself to three for now.

"Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?"

"N----, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

And the loving exchange of after the arrests at the end of season 3:
Squeak: "You've got to be the stupidest motherfucker I've ever dated."
Bernard: "I can't wait to go to jail."

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It is not an actual quote but the scene where Snoop is talking to a "citizen" at the hardware store as if he were in the game when discussing the killing abilities of a .22 cal bullet.

 

For actual quotes as a union worker from season two, "seniority system sucks, unless you're senior"

Horseface "don't worry you're still on the clock"

Marlo discussing Omar's escape from his ambush "that some real Spiderman shit there"

And the scene that was the soul of the series. "String, what about Wallace"

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Takes a whore to catch a whore - Kima, Season 2, about McNulty.

You need a Day of the Jackal-type motherfucker - Avon to Stringer, Season 3, when Stringer wants Slim Charles to assassinate Clay Davis.

That's good. That's like a 40-degree day - Stringer, Season 3.

Day at a time, I suppose - Omar, Season 2, testifying at Bird's trial.

Those are some of the ones that make me laugh. Here are some of the ones that break my heart:

You gonna look out for me, Sergeant Carver? - Randy, Season 4.

Come on, now. A man don't be shedding no tears - Michael saying goodbye to Bug, Season 5.

What you do, what you do? - Bubbles upon learning Sherrod is dead, Season 4.

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This one, where Rawls talks to Jimmy at the hospital after Greggs gets shot, still gives me shivers.  It's one of my favorite scenes in the entire series, too:

"You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole. I know it, and I'll be fucked if everybody in CID didn't know it. But I'll be also fucked if I let you sit here and think you did a single fucking thing to get a fucking police shot. Believe it or not, not everything is about you. Get it into your head McNulty. It's not your fault. And the motherfucker telling you this, he fucking hates your guts. So you know that if it was your fault, I'd be the first son of a bitch to tell you."

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  On 4/18/2014 at 3:24 AM, ethanvahlere said:

That's good. That's like a 40-degree day - Stringer, Season 3.

"We on it, String—like a 40 degree day!" ~ Sapper, after not quite getting Stringer's "40-degree day" speech.

 

"At this range? This caliber? Even if I miss, I can't miss" ~ Omar to Brother Mouzone

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"Where's Wallace at? Where the fuck is Wallace? Where's Wallace, String? String! Where the fuck is Wallace? Huh? Stringer?!" -D'Angelo Barksdale to

"Negro !You cannot travel halfway around the world and not speak any motherfuckin' English.! English Motherfucker!" Cool Lester Smooth to some random dockworker.

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  On 9/12/2014 at 2:43 PM, Princess Sparkle said:
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"Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?"

 

I just saw this scene yesterday and I, quite literally, rewound the scene 10 times just to watch that line, along with Shamrock's follow-up of "Yo, String, Poot did have the floor."

Same. I can watch that scene countless times for that bit alone. And speaking of Poot... His line to Bodie at the funeral?

 

"You do the 2-2-1? Shit look tight, yo."

 

It's my greatest hope that at my funeral there will be a flower arrangement worthy of being called "tight".

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Season 4, when Lester returns to Major Crimes
Bunk: Lester do love listening to other people's phone calls, don't you? A bit of a pervert that way.

 

Season 2, when Bunk walks in dressed in lacrosse sweats instead of dressing with his usual, pinstriped, lawyerly affectation

Herc: Lacrosse?

Bunk: What, a brother can't run with a stick? Jim Brown was an All-American midfielder at Syracuse.
Lester: You putting yourself beside Jim Brown?

 

I think Bunk made a good point, and I don't think he was necessarily saying he was as good as Jim Brown.  But I like the expression "You putting yourself beside".  Plus I loved the way Clarke Peters read the line

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I feel like one of the saddest lines in the whole show belongs to Bodie during his talk with McNulty in 4x13: "I feel old." I don't know why, but something about it hits me.

 

Not to mention a minute later: "The game is rigged, man. We like them little bitches on a chessboard."

 

(I may have attempted to re-watch the end of season 4, and failed.)

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I have so many favorite Omar quotes that I use daily, including:

1.  True that.

2.  Indeed.

3.  It's all good.

4.  I surely do.

5.  Thereabouts.

 

Omar's entire appearance at Bird's trial, from helping the bailiff work the crossword puzzle through "It's all in the game though, right?" was a masterpiece.  God, I miss Omar.  I'm watching Boardwalk Empire just for Michael Kenneth Williams who is made of awesome.

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On re-watch, I appreciate Proposition Joe more the second time around. My favorites:

[From the basketball game be the east and west sides in Season 1, where Prop Joe is wearing suit and tie to coach his team]:

Avon: What's up playboy? How come you wearin' that suit, B? For real its 85 fuckin' degrees out here and you try'na be like fuckin' Pat Riley
Proposition Joe : Look the part, be the part, motherfucker.

[From the second season when Prop Joe squares things between his nephew Cheese and Ziggy, at the behest of Sergi]:

Sergei: Family cannot be helped.
Proposition Joe: Who you tellin'? I got motherfuckin' nephews and in-laws fucking all my shit up all the time and it ain't like I can pop a cap in their ass and not hear about it Thanksgivin' time. For real, I'm livin' life with some burdensome niggers.

Words to live by Prop Joe, words to live by. 

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I loved Prop Joe - he was the middle man and mediator in some many things; always walking the tightrope with the likes of Avon, Stringer, The Greek, Marlo and of course Omar waiting for him to fall either this way or that, trying to keep everyone happy.

And yet he had all this influence but spent his time repairing clocks and toasters, and coming out with some philosophical pearls of wisdom:

 

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Omar on the one side holding a spade. And maybe Marlo to the other holding a shovel. And just at this moment... I managed to crawl out my own damn grave. No way do I crawl back in.

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