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Mike Milligan

Mike Milligan Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Mike Milligan

character

AKA: Mike Milligan

Nationality: Ireland

Occupations: Association Football Player

Total quotes: 3

“She was a true gloom, my mother. We used to eat in the dark. For a laugh, I wrote on her tombstone, 'Here lies Barbara Milligan, happy till the end.' Me, on the other hand, I'm an optimist.”

— Mike Milligan, Fargo, Season 2: The Gift of the Magi

Tagged: gloom, bummer, depressing, Tombstone, Epitaph, Prank, Irony

“Mike Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority.

Ricky G: Like a king?

Mike Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am —your king.

Ricky G: Uh, it's America, brother. We don't do kings.”

— Mike Milligan, Fargo, Season 2: Palindrome

Tagged: Sovereignty, kings, Monarchy, America

“Mike Milligan: There's a man.

Ben Schmidt: What—what man?

Mike Milligan: Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything.

Ben Schmidt: Pat him down.

Mike Milligan: Oh, they do that. Strip him naked—nothin'.

Ben Schmidt: So he's not stealin'.

Mike Milligan: Of course he is.

Lou Solverson: Wheelbarrows.

Mike Milligan: Thank you. That's right. He's stealing wheelbarrows.

Ben Schmidt: What?

Mike Milligan: My point is sometimes the answer is so obvious you can't see it because you're looking too hard.”

— Mike Milligan, Fargo, Season 2: Did You Do This? No, You Did It!

Tagged: parables, Stories, Fables, Wheelbarrows, Occam's Razor, Obvious Answer

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