Buddenbrooks (2008)
Mark Waschke: Thomas Buddenbrook
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Quotes
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Thomas Buddenbrook : The company demands it.
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Van Kellen : Coffee, spices, rubber, paraffin, timber, indigo - Here you will have insight into an overseas world trade.
Thomas Buddenbrook : At home in Lübeck, they're still arguing about joining costums union.
Van Kellen : You'll see. The bigger the market, the better are the chances. Money wants to procreate.
Thomas Buddenbrook : The way you say that. As if the money was alive.
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Gerda Arnoldsen : At least. A merchant with longing.
Thomas Buddenbrook : Don't tell on me in Lübeck.
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Thomas Buddenbrook : You're a deformity. An unhealthy spot on our family's body.
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Antonie 'Tony' Buddenbrook : Success will come back.
Thomas Buddenbrook : Tony, happiness and success are inside us. We have to hold on to them, fast, deep. When it starts to subside...
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Thomas Buddenbrook : You can't run a business from a piano.
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Thomas Buddenbrook : Don't make me a laughingstock.
Gerda Arnoldsen : It's all up to you.
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Christian Buddenbrook : You know, I have responsibilities. You know, little Gisela...
Thomas Buddenbrook : I know of no little Gisela, and I don't want to know about her, either.
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Thomas Buddenbrook : I can't think about your illnesses all day. Perhaps I am sicker than you are.