The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, calf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc.

— Joe Fox (Tom Hanks)

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16 seconds sound clip from the You've Got Mail movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:16:58.805 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Confession, I have read Pride and Prejudice about 200 times.

- I get lost in the language. Words like: Thither, mischance, felicity.

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- The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, calf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc.

- So people who don't know what the hell they're doing, or who on earth they are can, for only 2.95 get not just a cup of coffee, but an absolutely defining sense of self.

- Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!

- Tall, decaf cappuccino.

- Bummer!

- A Fox Books superstore.

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