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You know that feeling you get when a thing is new, and the person you're into gets sick, or there's an emergency, it makes you realize, wow, how much you care about them?

— Nick Prager (Brandon Scott), Dead to Me, Season 1: Try To Stop Me

Feeling New Person Sick Emergency

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[April 26, 1986: Meeting in the power plant office, engineer Anatoly Sitnikov reports high radiation in reactor 4]

Dyatlov: What's wrong with you? How'd you get that number from feedwater leaking from a blown tank?

Anatoly Sitnikov: You don't.

Dyatlov: Then what the fuck are you talking about?

Sitnikov: I... [clears throat] I walked around the exterior of building 4. I think there's graphite on the ground in the rubble.

Dyatlov: You didn't see graphite.

Sitnikov: I did.

Dyatlov: You didn't. YOU DIDN'T! Because it's NOT THERE!

Nikolai Fomin: What, are you suggesting the core... what? Exploded?

Sitnikov: [almost a whisper] Yes.

Fomin: Sitnikov, you're a nuclear engineer. So am I. So please tell me how an RBMK reactor core explodes. Not a meltdown, an explosion. I'd love to know.

Sitnikov: I can't.

Fomin: Are you stupid?

Sitnikov: No.

Fomin: Then why can't you?

Sitnikov: I... [stammers] I don't see how it could explode. [Fomin looks satisfied] But it did.

Dyatlov: [pounds the table] Enough! I'll go up to the vent block roof. From there, you can look right down into reactor building 4. I'll see it with my own... with my own eyes. [vomits on the table] I apologize. [collapses]

— Anatoly Dyatlov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: 1:23:45

Chernobyl Hydrogen Emergency Nuclear Meltdown

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[April 26, 1986: Immediately after the explosion, deputy chief engineer Anatoly Dyatlov stands shocked as shift supervisor Aleksandr Akimov calls his name repeatedly and alarms blare]
Aleksandr Akimov: Comrade Dyatlov? Comrade Dyatlov?!

Anatoly Dyatlov: What just happened?

Leonid Toptunov: I don't know.

[Turbine engineer Vyacheslav Brazhnik rushes into the room]
Vyacheslav Brazhnik: There's a fire in the turbine hall.

Dyatlov: The turbine hall... The control system tank. Hydrogen. [addressing Akimov] You and Toptunov, you morons blew the tank.

Toptunov: No, that's not—

Dyatlov: This is an emergency, everyone stay calm. Our first priority is to—

[As Dyatlov speaks, foreman Valeriy Perevozchenko runs through the open door in a panic]

Valeriy Perevozchenko: It exploded!

Dyatlov: We know. Akimov, are we cooling the reactor core?

Akimov: We shut it down, but the control rods are still... They're not all the way in, I disengaged the clutch—

Dyatlov: Alright, I'll disconnect the servos from the standby console. [to two other engineers] You two, get the backup pumps running, we need water moving through the core, that is all that matters!

Perevozchenko: There is no core! It exploded, the core exploded!

[Beat as all the engineers stare at Perevozchenko in disbelief and fear]

Dyatlov: He's in shock, get him out of here.

Perevozchenko: The lid is off. The stack is burning, I saw it.

Dyatlov: You're confused, RBMK reactor cores don't explode. Akimov!

Akimov: [to Toptunov] Don't worry, we did everything right. Something... something strange has happened.

Toptunov: Do you taste metal?

Dyatlov: Akimov!

Akimov: [to Perevozchenko] Comrade Perevozchenko, what you're saying is physically impossible. The core can't explode. It has to be the tank.

[Perevozchenko wordlessly shakes his head]

Dyatlov: We're wasting time. Let's go. Get the hydrogen out of the generators and pump water into the core.

Brazhnik: What about the fire?

Dyatlov: [annoyed; as if it were obvious] Call the fire brigade. [storms out]

— Anatoly Dyatlov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: 1:23:45

Chernobyl Hydrogen Emergency

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Buzz Lightyear: This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?

All Aliens: [pointing up] The clawwwwwwwww!

— Buzz Lightyear (voice) (Tim Allen), Toy Story

Emergency claw

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Michaela Stone: Where's, uh... where's mom and Jared?

Grandpa Steve: I texted with Jared. He couldn't make it over; work emergency.

Michaela Stone: And mom?

Grandpa Steve: Your mom got sick. She... she fought so hard.

Michaela Stone: What do you... what do you mean sick?

Grandpa Steve: She loved you kids more than life itself. You were everything to her.

Michaela Stone: No! No, no. I was just... I was just running with her on the beach. I came out here to tell her t-that she was right about me and Jared.

— Michaela Stone (Melissa Roxburgh), Manifest, Season 1: Pilot

Grief Death Emergency Sick Breakdown Heartbreak

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Come on, all the long distance lines are down? What about the satellite? Is it snowing in space? Don't you have some kind of a line that you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.

— Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day

celebrity Emergency Long Distance Satellite Snow

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I don't go into town anymore.

I bring out the emergency in people and I don’t know why.

When I speak, women fall sick and stars
drop like dead birds from the night.

My home, instead, is on a ridge
where horses bow their heads and bear the elements.

Alone, I conduct experiments. I communicate with storms. I stack stones and make signs that only I can understand.

Is it possible to love the world so much it pushes you away?

My silence has a shape. A mirage in the desert.

I have learned to sit so still I can make my heart stop.

— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, "The Outlaw," Narrative Magazine

Poetry poem Silence Strong Women Bold Women Emergency

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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

— Veronica Roth, Insurgent (Divergent Series)

Brave Courage Reality Emergency

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What would we do without our enemies? Exterior emergencies or shocks are indispensable to force individuals out of their natural laziness and set routines — and also to periodically break the collective frameworks that imprison them.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon

Emergency Enemy

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You know that feeling you get when a thing is new, and the person you're into gets sick, or there's an emergency, it makes you realize, wow, how much you care about them?

— Nick Prager (Brandon Scott), Dead to Me, Season 1: Try To Stop Me

— Anatoly Dyatlov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: 1:23:45

— Anatoly Dyatlov, Chernobyl, Miniseries: 1:23:45

Buzz Lightyear: This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?

All Aliens: [pointing up] The clawwwwwwwww!

— Buzz Lightyear (voice) (Tim Allen), Toy Story

— Michaela Stone (Melissa Roxburgh), Manifest, Season 1: Pilot

Come on, all the long distance lines are down? What about the satellite? Is it snowing in space? Don't you have some kind of a line that you keep open for emergencies or for celebrities? I'm both. I'm a celebrity in an emergency.

— Phil Connors (Bill Murray), Groundhog Day

— Austen Leah Rosenfeld, "The Outlaw," Narrative Magazine

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

— Veronica Roth, Insurgent (Divergent Series)

What would we do without our enemies? Exterior emergencies or shocks are indispensable to force individuals out of their natural laziness and set routines — and also to periodically break the collective frameworks that imprison them.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Human Phenomenon