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Mark Baum:
I am happy when I'm unhappy.[1]

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Mark Baum:
So, mortgage bonds are dog shit, and CDO's are dog shit wrapped in cat shit?

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Mark Baum:
The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck yeah, I want him to be right!

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Mark Baum:
[Regarding Vennett] I can't hate him. He's so transparent in his self-interest, that I kind of respect him. Would I buy a car from him? No.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Mark Baum:
It's two simple questions: Is there a bubble? And if there is, how exposed are the banks?

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Mark Baum:
Holy shit. All this time I've been trying to figure out who it is I'm betting against, and it's Morgan-Stanley. Which is me.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Mark Baum:
They knew. They knew the taxpayers would bail them out. They weren't being stupid, they just didn't care.

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Michael Burry:
Lawrence, I don't know how to be sarcastic.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Michael Burry:
I may have been early, but I'm not wrong.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Michael Burry:
[Final letter to his investors] I met my wife through Match.com. My profile said, "I am a medical student with only one eye, an awkward social manner, and $145,000 in student loans." She wrote back, "You're just what I've been looking for." She meant "honest", so let me be honest. Making money is not like what I thought it would be. This business kills the part of life that is essential, the part that has nothing to do with business. For the past two years, my insides have felt like they've been eating themselves. All the people that I respected won't talk to me anymore, except through lawyers. People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it seems authoritative and familiar. And I am not, nor ever have been, "familiar." So...so I have come to the sullen realization that I must close down the fund. Sincerely, Michael J. Burry, M.D.

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Ben Rickert:
The NSA has a $52 billion budget and the ability to monitor tens of millions of calls a second. You think they're not using it?

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Ben Rickert:
Do you realize what you just did? You just bet against the American economy.

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Ben Rickert:
Just...don't fucking dance.

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Ben Rickert:
I'm trying to sell $200 million worth of securities...in a pub...it smells like sheep.

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Ben Rickert:
If you don't want the offer, you can just hang up...that's what I thought.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Ben Rickert:
You guys said you wanted to be rich, now you're rich.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Jared Vennett:
[Opening monologue] In the late '70s, banking wasn't a job you went into to make large sums of money. It was a fucking snooze, filled with losers. Like selling insurance or accounting. And if banking was boring, then the bond department at the bank was straight up comatose. We all know about bonds. You give 'em to your snot-nosed kid when he turns 15; maybe, when he's 30, he makes a hundred bucks. Boring. That is until Lewis Ranieri came on the scene at Salomon Brothers. You might not know who he is, but he changed your life more than Michael Jordan, the iPod, and YouTube put together. You see, Lewis didn't know it yet, but he had already changed banking forever with one simple idea.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Jared Vennett:
The money came raining down, and for the first time, the banker went from the country club to the strip club. Pretty soon, stocks and savings were almost inconsequential. They were doing $50, $100, $200 billion in mortgage bonds and dozens of other securities a year, and America barely noticed as its number one industry became boring old banking. And then, one day, almost 30 years later, in 2008, it all came crashing down. In the end, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage-backed security mutated into a monstrosity that collapsed the whole world economy, and none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I'm guessing most of you still don't really know what happened. Yeah, you got a soundbite you repeat so you don't sound dumb, but come on. But, there were some who saw it coming. While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw what no one else could. Not me. I'm not a weirdo, I'm pretty fucking cool, but we'll meet again later. These outsiders saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: They looked.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Jared Vennett:
Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.

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Jared Vennett:
Now their foot's on fire, they think their steak is done, and you're surprised?

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Jared Vennett:
"And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."

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Jared Vennett:
I'm JACKED! I'M JACKED TO THE TITS!

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Jared Vennett:
[Looking at his bonus check of $47 million] So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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Margot Robbie:
[In a bubble bath with a glass of champagne] Basically, Lewis Ranieri's mortgage bonds were amazingly profitable for the big banks. They made billions and billions on their 2% fee they got for selling each of these bonds. But then, they started running out of mortgages to put in them. After all, there are only so many homes and so many people with good enough jobs to buy them, right? So, the banks started filling these bonds with riskier and riskier mortgages. [Butler pours more champagne into her glass] (Thank you, Benjamin) That way, they can keep that profit machine churning, alright? By the way, these risky mortgages are called "subprime." So, whenever you hear the word "subprime," think "shit." Our friend, Michael Burry, found out that these mortgage bonds that were supposedly 65% AAA, were actually just, mostly, full of shit, so now, he's going to "short" the bonds, which means "to bet against." Got it? Good...[Takes a sip of champagne] Now, fuck off.

– The Big Short  Movie Quote

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