High Fidelity
High Fidelity

Rob: Marvin Gaye.
Laura: I know.
Rob: Let's get it on. That's our song. Marvin Gaye is responsible for our entire relationship.
Laura: Oh, is that so? I'd like a word with him then.

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High Fidelity

Rob: What if I was doing something that can't be cancelled?
Laura: Rob, what are you ever doing that can't be cancelled?

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High Fidelity

Rob: I lost it. I lost it all- faith, dignity... about 15 pounds.

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High Fidelity

Rob: Some people never got over Vietnam or the night their band opened for Nirvana. I guess I never got over Charlie.

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High Fidelity

Rob: [pauses] Is that Peter fucking Frampton?

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High Fidelity

Laura: All I'm saying is, you have to allow for things to happen to people, but most of all to yourself. And you don't Bob, so what's the use?

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High Fidelity

Marie De Salle: I think its okay if you feel horny and fucked-up at the same time. I mean, why should we be denied our basic human rights, just 'cause we messed up our relationships.
Rob: You think sex is a basic human right?
Marie De Salle: Hell, yeah! yeah!

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High Fidelity

Rob: [referring to Ian] I didn't like the guy before, but I fucking hate him now.

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High Fidelity

Rob: The two to on my top five all-time break up list was Penny Hardwick.
Rob: Penny was great looking and her top five recording artists were Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, Cat Stevens and Elton John.

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High Fidelity

Rob: I wasn't interested in Penny's nice qualities, just her breasts. And, therefore, she was no good for me.

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High Fidelity

Rob: I can't go on apologizing my whole life.
Liz: I think just the *once* would do!

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High Fidelity

Rob: Songs at my funeral: "Many Rivers to Cross" by Jimmy Cliff, "Angel" by Aretha Franklin, and I've always had this fantasy that some beautiful, tearful woman would insist on "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" by Gladys Knight. But who would that woman be?

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High Fidelity

Rob Gordon: All three of us writers, we all experience music autobiographically.
Rob Gordon: I think a lot of people do.
Rob Gordon: So I'll have certain songs that mark certain times in our life and I think we're not rare that way.
Rob Gordon: Like I'll use music as fuel, you know?
Rob

Gordon: Not like as inspiration but as fuel like if I need to get into a certain mindset I know there's certain songs that I can turn on that'll just... that's the gas and that'll get me right where I need to go.
Rob Gordon: Or if I need to get out of a certain state put on this song or that song and it just propels you.

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High Fidelity

Rob Gordon: [Rob's mother starts to cry after Rob tells her over the phone that he and Laura have broken up] I'm okay if that's what's upsetting you...
Rob's Mom: That is NOT what's upsetting me!
Rob Gordon: [Sharply] Well it fuckin' should be, shouldn't it?

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High Fidelity

Rob: [From a deleted scene] Barry, you're over 30 years old. You owe it to yourself, to your friends, to your parents, NOT to play in a band called Sonic Death Monkey!
Barry: I owe it to myself to go RIGHT to the edge, Rob! And this band does exactly that. Over the edge, in fact!
Rob: Well, you'll be going right over the fucking edge

if you come anywhere near me on Friday night!
Barry: That's what we want: reaction! Hey, this was Laura's idea, not mine, buddy. And if Laura's bourgeois lawyer friends can't take it, FUCK them. Let 'em riot, we can take it! We're fuckin' Sonic Death Monkey.

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High Fidelity

Rob: I just want to know where I stand here. What chance?
Laura: What - I don't know what chance we have.
Rob: You can tell me roughly.
Laura: Alright, we have a nine percent chance of getting back together.
Rob: Nine?
Laura: Nine.
Rob:

Great.

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High Fidelity

Caroline Fortis: Excuse me, is this Stereolab?
Rob: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Caroline Fortis: I haven't heard this one. It's really good.
Rob: Yeah, I know
Caroline Fortis: Are you Bob?
Rob: Rob.

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High Fidelity

Rob: Do you want to get married - to me?
[Laura burst out laughing]
Rob: I'm serious.
Laura: Yes, I know.
Rob: Well, thanks a frickin' bunch!
Laura: I'm sorry, it's just two days ago you were making tapes for that girl from the Reader. Well, forgive me if I don't think of you as

the world's safest bet.
Rob: Would you marry me if I was?
Laura: What brought all this on?
Rob: I don't know. I'm just sick of thinking about it all the time.
Laura: About what?
Rob: This stuff. Love and settling down and marriage, you know. I want to think about something else.


Laura: [sarcastically] I change my mind. That's the most romantic thing I've ever heard. I do. I will.

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High Fidelity

Rob: Where's Ian? Or Ray, or... what is his fucking name, anyway? What do you call him, Ian or Ray?
Laura: Ray. I hate Ian.
Rob: I hate him too.
Laura: Yeah... I'm sure.

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High Fidelity

Rob: Alison married Kevin! I am fine now! Married her junior high school sweetheart: kissed me on the bench, kissed Kevin on the bench - MARRIED Kevin. This is great! This has got nothing to do with me! This is fate, this is destiny; it is beyond my control, beyond my fault. I love this!