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Adam R. Perlman Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“The best way to bond with someone isn’t doing a favor, it’s asking for one.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: The Oath
Tagged: Making Friends, favors, Quote of the Moment
“Legal trouble does not mean you can't fulfill your teleological purpose.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Law Won't Stop You, Your Identity Is Stronger Than Any Constraint, Clever Ways of Saying Nothing Will Stop You
“Impose your will on him until he does what he needs to and repays the debt.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: willpower, Getting What Is Owed To You, Pushing Hard
“Calculation is not something to be scoffed at. It's a tool. A tactic. And I use it proudly and often.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Calculation, Conspiracy
“Oliver: That is tampering. 

Chuck: No. It's finesse.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Cheating Or Strategy?, Grey Ethical Lines, Ethics, Tampering With Evidence, Taking Control of Fate
“It's yet another fucking accommodation. I got this rich so I could stop making them”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Kompenso
Tagged: wealthy, Never Rich Enough To Avoid People
“That reminds me of a prayer I said every night as a kid: I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray that all my toys should break. So my fucking brother and sister can't play with 'em.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: Kompenso
Tagged: Bad Prayers, selfishness, Selfish
“You can't have it appear you're illegally meddling, especially when you're illegally meddling.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Illegal Behavior, Meddling
“You know your shopper isn't your friend, personal trainer doesn't think you're actually making progress, and all the charities you give money to don't actually honor you when they honor you.”
— Lara Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Reality, No One Cares About You, Reality Is Dim
“The fact that you can't fully understand that doesn't mean he's wrong. It just means you haven't gone beyond your own limits.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Limits of Knowledge, Pushing Things Beyond Limits, Lack of Knowledge
“They would never admit this, but when they first met, when Chuck and I first started dating, they liked each other  plenty. More than that, smartest guys in the room. They saw themselves in each other.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Flaw in the Death Star
Tagged: Are Friends Mirrors or Enemies?
“Venture Capitalists are just hedge fund managers who can quote the Tibetan Book Of The Dead.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Flaw in the Death Star
Tagged: Venture Capital
“Why should I trust you to do anything other than point me to the nearest avocado toast?”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Don't Trust You, insults, Insulting Someone That Has Not Earned Your Trust Yet
“Get good at letting go, which is a different kind of freedom.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: The Wrong Maria Gonzalez
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Freedom In Moving On
“Self-righteousness is an indulgence I cannot afford.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Self-Righteousness, Moral Superiority
“You know what it takes to find a truffle? A hog, a dog, whatever keenly scented, carefully trained animal gets the assignment, spends a lifetime traipsing through the dark, sniffing out the slightest aroma. And only then the digging begins. And what do you think they’re digging through?Shit. That’s the thing we don’t say much about, right? The things we most value, the things we pay most dearly to ingest are grown in shit.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: The Kingmaker
Tagged: Mushrooms, All Is Shit, What We Value
“Inside the government there is no risk. Every action, every moment is backed by the full power and credit suspect as that may be of the United States of America. Everything is all fucking covered by Big State. But for us and for you too now everything is on the line. We don't feel like coming into work one morning, we make a series of fucked up calls the lights get shut and we are on the balls of our asses.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Flaw in the Death Star
Tagged: Government vs. Private Business
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