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“What was missing, which I'm trying to do now, is creating objective tools for people to understand 'what it is' not 'what I want'. Like, "Oh, Sophia wouldn't like that." I don't want that to be a conversation in a room ever. Whether I'm in it. Or even worse, when I'm not in the room. This is not about whether Sophia likes it or not. Here's the brand. Look, does this fit with that objective guide. This is what we're all signing up for. This is that thing that's not me. I never figured out how to scale me, and then it became a have and have nots about culture.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso: From Nasty Gal to Girlboss by Without Fail
Tagged: Business, Management, Business Education, Failure Stories
“The most unpredictable thing about a business is humans.”
— Sophia Amoruso, Sophia Amoruso: From Nasty Gal to Girlboss by Without Fail
Tagged: Business, Management, Business Education, Failure Stories
“I’m a shower, not a grower.”
— Nick Vincent Murphy, Chris O'Dowd, Moone Boy, Series 2: Handball Duel
Tagged: shower, grower
“Kevin Leech: [Having hit Martin with a golf ball on the forehead] Are you all right?

Martin Moone: [Standing up] No. I'm Martin Moone. I haven't seen All Right.”
— Nick Vincent Murphy, Chris O'Dowd, Moone Boy, Series 2: Handball Duel
Tagged: all right, Misheard
“I can choke down the bile, manufacture empathy—when our subjects are at least informative.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: bile, feigned empathy
“[first lines]
Holden Ford: [holding Richard Speck newspaper clippings] It's like meeting a movie star.

Bill Tench: Could be as anti-climactic.

Holden Ford: 'Crime of the Century.'

Bill Tench: Until Charles Whitman two weeks later...

Holden Ford: I remember staring at this wanted poster of him, trying to figure out if I saw him on the street, would I know he was insane?

Bill Tench: You clip all these?

Holden Ford: Everything I could get my hands on. Even went to my neighbors who subscribed to newspapers outside of Milwaukee.

Bill Tench: Holden and his first criminal crush!”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, Serial Killer Fandom, Milwaukee
“Holden Ford: You would really turn down the chance to meet Richard Speck? He's almost up there with Manson.

Bill Tench: Well, maybe he'll give you an autograph.

Holden Ford: That would be inappropriate, right?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: Richard Speck, charles manson, Serial Killers
“Holden Ford: What's the point if we don't apply it to the real world?

Bill Tench: We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.

Holden Ford: Yet! Certainly our goal is to be preemptive.

Bill Tench: We're the FBI, Holden. That is not our goal. Yet.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 8
Tagged: FBI, Murder Investigations
“Lucille: Maybe it's because I went off my post-partum medication.

Michael: You were still taking that? You had Buster 32 years ago.

Lucille: And that's how long I've been depressed about him.”
— Lucille Bluth, Arrested Development, Season 3: The Cabin Show
Tagged: Funny Dialogue, Examples of Clever Dialouge, Post-Partum Depression
“Guys communicate in a certain way. It can be rough, but it's like a code. It gets out the conflict.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: male communication
“Bill Tench: This is how we get to him.
[shows Holden a picture of a severed foot as the businessman watches in horror]

Businessman: Please. I can switch with you.

Bill Tench: I'm enjoying the leg room.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: severed foot
“I've been around crazy. I was in the Army.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: crazy, army
“If what we're doing doesn't get under your skin, you're more screwed-up than I thought, or kidding yourself.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: cold, Emotionless, Screwed-Up
“Bill Tench: It's always the mother. They all have a crazy, angry mother.

Holden Ford: Or an absent father. Benjamin only changed after his father took off. Maybe has nothing to do with the mother.

Bill Tench: Aren't all fathers absent in some way? I know my old man was never around. Imagine how different Benjamin and Rose's lives might have been if their father never left.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: killers, Developmental Psychology, Absent Father, Crazy Mother
“Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that. But you said he was home alone watching TV? That's not much of an alibi.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Corpse, TV, alibi
“Holden Ford: [brushing his teeth] Here's a question, if it is Benjamin or some other boyfriend who freaked out on her, does the case merit our involvement? We still can't rule out a sequence killer, but if the perpetrator was a townie, then the crime is random, and there's no expectation that he'll be repeating it.

Bill Tench: Here's my question: Shouldn't our funding cover separate rooms?

Holden Ford: You don't like my company?

Bill Tench: We'll get connecting doors.

Holden Ford: The mutilation of her body alone justifies our involvement.

Bill Tench: Would you mind sitting on your own bed, please?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: investigation, Murder
“Monte Rissell: You know what? I don't think I'm interested.

Bill Tench: Fine. You want to diddle around, we'll walk out of here. We'll go have a nice, leisurely lunch wherever the fuck we want, and then take the picturesque drive back to Quantico. What's the rest of your day look like?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 4
Tagged: Quantico, FBI, Diddling
“Bill Tench: We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Science Unit.

Monte Rissell: Scientists?

Bill Tench: We're from the Behavioral Science Unit. We're doing research. Interviewing men like you.

Monte Rissell: Men like me?

Bill Tench: Murderers with multiple victims. To better understand why you do what you do.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 4
Tagged: FBI, Behavioral Science Unit, murderers, Serial Killers
“Bill Tench: There's nothing behind Kemper's eyes. It's like standing near a black hole.

Holden Ford: Right.

Bill Tench: And he thinks we're his friends. Well, he thinks you're his friend. Which makes you a pretty great FBI agent.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, dead eyes, FBI Agent
“Michael: Oh, God, look at us. Crying like a couple of girls. 

Gob: Aw, you're the only one crying. ”
— Michael Bluth, Arrested Development, Season 2: The Righteous Brothers
Tagged: Crying Like Little Girls
“Bill Tench: I'm sorry, Ed, do you mean that violence in the movies drove you to kill those women?

Edmund Kemper: No. My point is, in reality it doesn't work the way you expect. When you stab somebody they're supposed to fall dead. They go, 'Oh,' and they fall dead, right?

Bill Tench: Right.

Edmund Kemper: In reality, when you stab somebody, they lose blood pressure and they leak to death, very slowly.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Movie Violence, Stabbing
“Holden Ford: So you're saying you don't think this, us interviewing these killers, is crazy?

Wendy Carr: Just the opposite. I mean, crazy in the way that anyone with a truly new idea is crazy. But no.

Holden Ford: Wow, OK. That's a relief. That hasn't really been the feedback we've gotten so far.

Bill Tench: Actually, this is the only feedback we've gotten so far.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: killers, crazy, Feedback
“[last lines]
Holden Ford: So what are you teaching?

Wendy Carr: Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego.

Bill Tench: Nixon was a sociopath.

Wendy Carr: Very similar.

Holden Ford: How do you get to be president of the United States if you're a sociopath?

Wendy Carr: The question is, how do you get to be president of the United States if you're not? That's why this work is so vital. It goes so much further than the FBI.

Bill Tench: All the way to the White House.

Wendy Carr: Perhaps, yeah.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Sociopath, Richard Nixon, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol, White House
“Holden Ford: Actually, Debbie's the first girl I've really dated-dated since high school.

Bill Tench: Dated-dated.

Holden Ford: Yeah.

Bill Tench: My wife's the first woman I've married-married.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: dated-dated, married-married
“Unit Chief Shepard: Can you make him shut up?

Bill Tench: I have not been able to, sir.

Holden Ford: How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?

Unit Chief Shepard: I like you, Bill. I don't particularly like him, but I like you... OK, you may continue with your little sideshow. However, no one can know about it. Clear? You will relocate yourselves to the basement beneath Behavioral Sciences, reporting directly and exclusively to me.

Bill Tench: The basement? I'm 44 years old.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: demotion, behavioral sciences, crazy, Basements
“They can send us to prison. But they cannot kill us. ”
— Elaine Renko, Hard Sun, Season 1: Episode 1
“Bill Tench: Holden, they're not gonna let you in with a sidearm.

Holden Ford: The guy is six foot nine, weighs 300 pounds.

Bill Tench: That's right.

Holden Ford: So what's he gonna do?

Bill Tench: He's gonna take the fuckin' thing away, kill you with it, and then have sex with your face.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Rape, Gun
“I have a secret. I'm a time traveler from 1905.”
— Lena Grisky, Find Me in Paris, Season 1: Find Me in Paris
“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: crazy
“[last lines]
Bill Tench: [squabbling about their differing methods] Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend?

Holden Ford: I do now, Bill, as it happens.

Bill Tench: OK. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your girlfriend. OK?

Holden Ford: OK.

Bill Tench: How's that sound?

Holden Ford: It sounds OK, Bill.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: instructors, methodists

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