There’s always a chance, Doctor, as long as one can think. — The Great Mouse Detective

Don’t lose your head.  If you can keep thinking in a crisis, or when you’re tired, or when the world is just going out of its way to piss you off, you’re already ahead of almost everyone else.  So long as you don’t let the lizard brain take over, you will always have a shot at success.

Manfred: Hey, buddy, want a lift?
Diego: No, thanks. I’m saving what little dignity I’ve got left.
Sid: You’re hanging out with us now, pal. Dignity has nothing to do with it.

— Ice Age

My friends are both high class and redneck.  They come in all colors, sizes, and persuasions.  Some spend their days in three piece suits and their evenings drinking $200 a bottle liquor.  Some live in jeans and enjoy a cold home brew.  When we get together, we’re too loud, too proud, and too much for a lot of other folks.  We’ve been sneered at and told to keep it down while others work. We get strange looks when we walk down the street together, and sometimes we even earn them.  We’re a crowd of meat-eating, barbecue gun wearing, hooting and hollering fools sometimes.

And you know what?  I wouldn’t trade it for the world.  Life’s too short to worry about what people think about your friends.

Translator: The general would like to know if you will drink a toast with him.
Patton: Thank the general and tell him I have no desire to drink with him or any other Russian son of a bitch.
Translator: [Nervous] I can’t tell him that!
Patton: Tell him, every word.
Translator: [In Russian] He says he will not drink with you or any Russian son of a bitch.
Russian general: [In Russian] Tell him he is a son of a bitch, too. Now!
Translator: [Very nervous] He says he thinks you are a son of a bitch, too.
Patton: [laughing] All right. All right, tell him I’ll drink to that; one son of a bitch to another.

— Patton

There has to be some common ground for all of us.  Hopefully, it’s our core beliefs, values, or just our basic humanity.  No matter what, we have to find it, or we risk dehumanizing our opponents, and that is a very dangerous place to be.  Once we stop recognizing those who oppose us as human, it becomes easier to bring harm to them, and vice versa.  We need outreach to the other side, even while holding fast to our positions.

 I don’t care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.  — Some Like It Hot

Face it, gentlemen, a ripped set of abs, a flowing mane of shiny hair, and a brilliant smile don’t hurt, but they will only take you so far.  Once the infatuation wears off, you’re going to have to offer more if you want more than a roll in the hay.  No mature woman is going to stay with you without some security and stability.  It never hurts to bring everything that you need to the table so that she knows she isn’t going to have to support your hairy butt.  Before you go looking for Miss Right Now, remember that she may turn into Miss Right, and she isn’t going to stick around for a broke Prince Charming.  It never hurts to know how to do the dishes, change a diaper, fix the car, and cook a meal, either.