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1998 featured the birth of iMac, too much Monica Lewinski, Europe going ‘Euro’, Jordan’s last game in Chicago, embassy bombings, the birth of Google, a juiced McGuire dinging 70, a pro wrestler becoming Governor of Minnesota, and Seinfeld doing nothing for the very last time.  It was a good year for writers, offering many insightful perspectives for us all to ponder.  Here are the 10 smartest quotes from 1998.

How well do you know your movie quotes?  Could you name the movie, no matter how scrambled the words?  If you saw the quote, “A damn dear don’t frankly give I my”, would you know it came from Gone with the Wind?  Can you pick out the Star Wars classic if you read, "be force may the with you"?  We have listed ten well-known movie quotes below with their words reorganized into alphabetical order.  The easier ones are first.  How many movies can you name?  The answers will be posted on March 30th. 

Baseball has been the context for many Hollywood movies.  From The Pride of the Yankees to The Bad News Bears, to Field of Dreams and Bull Durham, stories have been told about the grand old game.  As we near the start of a new season, here are the 10 best movie quotes about the great game of baseball.

Pop culture has rediscovered the music of the Beatles.  Throughout the most turbulent years of the 1960’s, the songs of Lennon and McCartney dominated the charts while the Beatles themselves became icons for everything that people loved or despised about that era of change.  Back then, it was the Beatles image that filled everyone’s hearts and minds.  Today, we can simply hear the massive quality of their music.  Here are the 9 best film quotes about the Beatles.

Movie quote from: The Good Earth (1937) - Uncle (Walter Connolly)

In The Good Earth, an excellent film from 70+ years ago, the lead characters Wang and O-Lan experience the ups and downs of a life tied to the land.  Although they share common values when they are poor, Wang changes when wealth gives him choice.  Whereas O-Lan draws her values from within, committed to hard work, family, and her husband, Wang looks to society to shape his decisions.  The film raises an important modern-day question, "What does a person consider when making vital life decisions - identity or image?

Oil prices are now over $100 a barrel.  This can’t be good for Planet Earth.  With all our human ingenuity, why aren't the great majority of us driving vehicles fueled by some other more abundant and planet-friendly substance?  Can’t we invent a reasonably priced car that gets 200 miles to the gallon?  Oil has often been the topic of films over the ages.  Here are 8 wise comments from motion pictures about fuel and why our collective planetary fuel gauge is running low.

People turn to the media when financial times are tough.  Movies are a great way to distract your mind from reality.  It is no coincidence that the top grossing movie of 1981 (the last recession) was Raiders of the Lost Ark, the ultimate escape film.  Back for the 2008 recession, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is scheduled for release on May 22.  Movie quotes can offer insight for tougher financial times.  Here are the top twelve movie quotes to “get you by” as our consumer-oriented economy recedes.

Since the first Academy Awards in 1928, less than 100 movies have been selected as Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  These Oscar winners have featured many memorable quotes, like “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn”, “Make him an offer he can’t refuse”, and Gollum's drool-laden, “My precious”.  All the top movies seem to have at least one quote that finds its way into our lexicon.  Can you name the eleven Best Picture films that are featured in this 11 Quote Quiz?   

As we head into the week leading up to the Oscars, much speculation will occur regarding the winners and losers at the Academy Award ceremonies on February 24th.  Isn't it just an honor to be nominated?  Once the only show in town, the Oscars are now just the last in a long string of awards handed out for excellence in film.  Screenwriters have made a few comments about awards over the years.  Here are the 7 best award-related quotes from the movies.