daria quotes
I like having low self esteem. It makes me special -- Daria
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"I'm going to spend the next of the day
working on your self esteem."
"Mom, I'm in the hands of professionals. Any meddling by you could be
detrimental to my existence."
-- Daria's mom and Daria
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"You're blind, deaf, and can barely walk.
Yet, you've had affairs with three royals! How do you do it?"
-- tv show "sick sad worls"
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"Even though I'm more popular, we do have
some things in common."
"Breathing?" -- Brittany and Daria

[In the cafeteria]
Brittany: Thanks for helping me earlier in art. May be there's something I
could teach you.
Daria: Well, you could show me how to twirl hair around my little finger and
look vacant.
[Twirling hair around her finger]
Brittany: I don't know if that's something you can teach.
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"I love being the hostess. It's so easy
to get home at the end of the evening." -- Brittany
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"Where were you girls been all our lives?"
"Waiting for you. We were born in this room. We grew up in this room.
And we're going to die in
this room, alone." -- teenage boy and Daria
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I didn't met a bunch of new people, I made Quinn
want to throw herself down a well, and I came home
with this bonus sock. All in all, a great time. -- Daria
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How come even in my fantasies everyone is a jerk?
-- Daria
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"They may be shallow, but that doesn't mean
they should be executed."
"Yes it does."
"OK, I'm sold." -- Daria & Jane
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"Look at the jello! It's jiggling!"
"Afraid of the competition?" -- Brittney and Daria
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"Are we all going to die?"
"Not on school property. Go home!" -- boy and principal
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"You know, being a post-apocalypic town
will be cool. The other towns will be afraid of us."
"They already are." -- Jane and Daria
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Jane's Motto: Every cloud has a smoky gray lining.
-- From the Daria website
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"I warn you, this is going to screw up the
natural world order!"
"That's Daria's mission in life." -- Leprechaun & Jane
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Jane: You know, being a postapocalyptic town
is going to be cool. Other towns will be scared of us.
Daria: I'm sure they already are.
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Jane: Well, what's your definition of true?
Daria: Something that says something.
Jane: What, anything?
Daria: No, something, about something.
Jane: Let me get this straight, you're telling me that you want to write something,
not just
anything,
that says something about something.
Daria: Right.
Jane: Gee, who'd ever believe you having trouble communicating.
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Jane: Hey Daria, can I have your boots?
Daria: Yeah, turn around. I'll give you one right now.
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Jane: Am I missing something?
Ms. Morris: The team needs you, and you need the team... IF you don't want
to
be here taking math again this summer.
Jane: Gee, that almost sounds like blackmail. Fortunately, I can pull up
my math grade on my own.
Ms. Morris: Then I'LL flunk you.
Jane: Why don't I go to Ms. Li and expose this grade-changing arrangement?
Ms. Morris: She already knows.
Jane: Okay, then, back off or I'll tell the P.T.A.
Ms. Morris: They know too.
Jane: ...Congress?
Ms. Morris: You're beaten, Lane.
Jane: How about if I call the three local TV stations and tell each one that
the other two are running the story?
Ms. Morris: Damn.
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[Having been offered a visit to a private school.]
Daria: I already go to a school where the kids all think they're cooler than
me. I want to go
to a school
where the kids all think they're smarter than me, too.
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Trent: We're thinking of changing our name. Do
you think if we spelled Mystic Spiral with two y's
it would be better?
Daria: [thinking] And if I spelled my name D-a-r-y-a I'd be crowned Miss America.
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Mr. O'Neill: You probably think about the dark side all the time.
Daria: The... dark side? Are we talking about "The Force"?
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[Daria puts her head in her locker.]
Daria: Do me a favor.
Jane: Yeah?
Daria: Close my locker.
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Daria: Only Quinn could turn having brains into a fad.
Jane: You know how fads are. Today it's brains, tomorrow, pierced tongues.
Then the next day, pierced brains.
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Daria: Don't worry. I don't have low self-esteem.
It's a mistake.
Jake: I'll say.
Daria: I have low esteem for everyone else.
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Daria: Sometimes your shallowness is so thorough,
it's almost like depth.
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Daria: Welcome to "It's a Nutty Nutty Nutty
World."
We're just nuts about nuts.
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Mr. Anthony DeMartino: And why are we going to
engage in simulated combat? Daria.
Daria: Because no high school education is complete until you've chased your
fellow students
around the woods with toy guns?
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Ms. Claire Defoe: Good work, Daria. Your cube is BURSTING out of the picture
plane.
You've really created the illusion of depth!
Daria: I'm thinking of going into politics.
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Mr. Timothy O'Neill: So you see, girls, I don't want to change the intent
of the poster, I just want to
make it more palatable. You know what they say, a spoonful of sugar helps
the medicine go down.
Jane Lane: Not if you're diabetic.
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Daria: As far as I can make out, "edgy"
occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers are looking
to suck the energy -- not to mention the spending money -- out of the "youth
culture." So they come up with
this fake concept of seeming to be dangerous when every move they make is
the result of market research
and a corporate master plan.
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Helen Morgendorffer: I came in to ask you to rinse off your dishes before
you put them in
the dishwasher. Your father found a cheese fry melted onto his "World's
Greatest Dad" cup and he thought
it was some kind of rodent. Now he's sworn off coffee.
Daria: Then I should be hearing from the Nobel committee any day now.
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Jane Lane: Hey, look Daria. The fog's rolling
in.
Daria: Ew. That's not fog. That's methane.
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Sandi Griffin: Help! Whoa, I'm drowning!
Daria: Stay there. I'll be right back.
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Quinn: Daria, you can't leave me here with those, those yuppies!
Daria: Yuppies are from the '80s.
Quinn: So what do you call people with funny outfits who talk about peace
and love and stuff?
Daria: Trekkies.
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[Daria bumps into someone she can't see, because she isn't wearing her glasses]
Upchuck: Ow!
Daria: Oh, uh, sorry, Upchuck.
Upchuck: Sweet Daria, you don't have to resort to a ruse to get into my personal
space. All
you need do is ask.
Daria: Your personal space is the final frontier, Upchuck. One where I intend
never
to boldly go.
[walks away]
Upchuck: You'll be back. They all come back.
Jane: Name two.
[walks away]
Upchuck: [pause] I could!
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Jane: Come on, not even aliens would give the
planet to the Fashion Club.
You're getting paranoid.
Daria: I'm not talking about aliens. But there's something out there.
Something stupid.
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[Daria and Jane lead a school tour.]
Daria: Let's move on to Hell and Purgatory, also known as the gym and locker
rooms.
Jane: Where, for 20 bucks, I'll show you which showers haven't been peed in.
To my knowledge.
[Tour students are shocked.]
Daria: My friend is just kidding you, of course. They've all been peed in.
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Daria: My hormones don't rage. Oh sure, they get mad sometimes,
but then they just stop speaking to each other.
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Trent: Some people say that's what drove him
to madness.
Others say, you know, no.
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[School is on a mountain hiking
trip.]
Ms. Li: We'll have no problem reaching base camp before dark, as long as there
are no more surprises.
[Snow begins to fall.]
Daria: Surprise.
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Jane: A lot of weirdness around here lately.
Daria: Yeah. I won't be sorry to see this day end.
Jane: You say that every day.
Daria: Oh, yeah.
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Kevin: Darwin's the monkey guy, right? I like monkeys.
Mr. DeMartino: A statement no doubt once also made by your mother!
Kevin: No. She's more into kitties.
Brittany: I love kitties!
Mr. DeMartino: That's terrific, Brittany, and really adds an extra dimension
to today's lesson!
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Quinn: Daria, have you seen my new Teenage Superstars
magazine?
Daria: I couldn't help myself. I plastered my walls with its hot sexy pinups.
Quinn: I'll ask Mom.
[Quinn exits. Helen enters.]
Helen: Daria, have you seen your father?
Daria: Did you look under the Teenage Superstars magazine?
Helen: I'll ask Quinn.
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Jeffy: What does "woe" mean?
Daria: It's like the feeling you'd get if the Super Bowl were preempted by
"Antiques Roadshow".
Joey: Whoa!
Daria: See?
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[Looking at Jane and Daria's poster for the art contest]
Ms. Claire Defoe: Oh Jane. She's beautiful.
[Reading the poem]
Ms. Claire Defoe: She knows she's a winner. She couldn't be thinner. Now she
goes to
the bathroom and vomits up dinner.
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Jane: And the dish ran away with the spoon. But
Hawaii was
the only state that would recognize the marriage as legal.
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Woman on TV: I didn't mean to hurt him!
Daria: The knife just slipped. Sixty-seven times.
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Jane: I do envy you.
Daria: Then I'm afraid the fever's reached your brain,
and you'll have to be destroyed.
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Jane: Would you say sleeping with the guitar in your hands is practicing?
Trent: As long as you don't drop it.
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Daria: Damn. I'll have to make my own breakfast.
[She pushes the toaster level down]
Daria: Now I'm too tired to eat.
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Daria: So now my once rational mother is telling me that I have to respect
Quinn's beliefs.
Jane: Well I suppose the earth *could* be flat.
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Jane: Ready to leave?
Daria: I was ready to go before we got here.
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[Daria's
class is visiting the local mall]
Mrs. Bennet: Now, we'll meet back here at quarter to three. Remember, area
F, section moss,
level 3. Got it? F moss 3.
Kevin: I know a good way to remember that.
Mrs. Bennet: You have a mnemonic device Kevin?
Kevin: It's not a S&M thing Mrs. B, it's just a way to remember that.
Mrs. Bennet: Well let's hear it.
Kevin: Fmossthree. Fmossthree! Get it? Fmossthree! Or was it Fmosstwo?
Mrs. Bennet: Everyone, write it down!
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"My goal is not to wake up at forty with
a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate
because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens. -Daria
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[Leaving a Party]
Quinn: This night was like...What does it mean when something's funny? Moronic.
Jane: I think you mean ironic.
Daria: She was right the first time.
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Daria stares at tv. "Daria..Daria..the tv's
not on." "Shh, I'm watching this" -Daria and Helen
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"I've written lots of stuff, it's just not
up to my standards. I didn't even know I had standards." -Daria )
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"I have no friends. I walk alone."
- Jane
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Jake:"See those berries? That's our breakfast!
See that stream? That's our drinking water!"
Daria:"See that skeleton? That's our future."
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"The night holds the key." -Trent
"The key to what?" -Daria
"I don't know, Daria, it's early." -Trent
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Willow:"You have a very old soul."
Daria:"It just looks mature for its age."
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Jake:"Won't this camping trip be fun, Daria?"
Daria:"Yeah. Almost as fun as drowning."
-From "The Teachings Of Don Jake."
Currently listening to: fall on me
Currently watching: beavis and butthead
Currently feeling: weird