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“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
“Self-righteousness is an indulgence I cannot afford.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Icebreaker
Tagged: Self-Righteousness, Moral Superiority
“You don't want to be in politics, you want to be beyond politics.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: All the Wilburys
Tagged: Nietzschean Themes In Popular Culture, Politics Sucks, Going Beyond The Power to a Higher Power
“Once you get going prosecuting people who don't deserve it, it gets hard to stop.”
— Bryan Connerty, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: Slippery Slopes, Moral Landslide
“The doctor's oath: do no harm. Three words, and yet — almost impossible to put into practice.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: Hippocratic Oath, Theory vs. Practice, Ideals and Realities
“The individual sacrificing their self for the whole can be the most beautiful thing there is. But not if it's done under duress or for the wrong reasons.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: For The Greater Good, Sacrifices
“What words do you need me to say to make you feel safe?”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: The Third Ortolan
Tagged: Comforting Someone, Making Someone Feel Safe, Questions
“We're almost home. Don't let your paranoia make you take unnecessary risks.”
— Orrin Bach, Billions, Season 3: The Third Ortolan
Tagged: Paranoia, Going Crazy When You're Almost There
“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
“We need to be thinking about tomorrow. So we keep going.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: A Generation Too Late
Tagged: All Eyes On Tomorrow
“The Quants. Since 1602, when the Dutch East India company first offers shares to the public, smart, highly trained mathematicians have tried without success to solve that market.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: A Generation Too Late
Tagged: Wall Street Quotes, Wall Street, Finance, TV Show Quotes
“Billy Bean never won a world-series.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: A Generation Too Late
Tagged: Wall Street Quotes, Wall Street, Finance, TV Show Quotes
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I think you're trying to bully me, and a bully is devastated when you try to stand up to him.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Billions Season 2: Optimal Play
Tagged: bullying, Bravery
“ I like nightmares. When I wake up, they leave me deeply valuing my reality.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Billions Season 2: With or Without You
Tagged: nightmares, Wisdom, Reality
“The trap was time.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Currency
Tagged: Patience, Timing, strategy
“You know those poison-tip arrows that certain tribes use that go through one guy and kill another? This might be like that — golden frog poison. I tried to smoke it once. Shaman jumped across the tent to stop me.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: When Your Drugs Are Actually Poisons
“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
“Foolishness is right next door to strength.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: Foolishness, Pretending To Be Strong
“You need me, because I am willing to stare into the abyss beyond conventional morality and do what needs to be done.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Punch
Tagged: Will Do Anything, Screw Ethics
“If you’re successful enough, people think you can do anything, and then you start to believe it, too. It’s hard not to engage in a little magical thinking when everyone else is looking at you like you’re some combination of Warren Buffet and God above.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Magical Thinking
Tagged: Magical thinking, Arrogance, Thinking You're A God, Dangers of Success
“Only people with money forget about money.”
— Bryan Connerty, Billions, Season 1: The Good Life
Tagged: How The Rich Live, Luxury of Not Thinking About Money, Being Rich
“You have about as much edge as Mister Rogers.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: insults, Diss
“Kennedy wasn't under as much pressure as I am. ”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: John F. Kennedy, pressure, Stress
“Guarantee is a word that amateurs use in politics.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Magical Thinking
Tagged: Politics, lying
“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
“ I don’t believe in the soul not in the way it’s traditionally used, nor in the more modern meaning, which connotes connectedness and being spiritually awake. What I do believe in are actions, purpose, purity of vocation, and the challenges that come along with those things, the things that make me feel alive. Axe Capital gives me all of that and more. So, you worry about my soul, and I’ll just keep doing my job.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: Soul
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