To us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about bills, were dead.
10 seconds sound clip from the Goodfellas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:17:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- I know, but it's the middle of Tue fucking summer. What'll I do with fur coats?
- You don't want furs? I'll take the furs away.
- No, don't take them away, I want them.
- You know what we'll do? We'll hang them in the freezer with the meat. How's that?
- For us, to live any other way was nuts.
- They were suckers. They had no balls.
- If we wanted something, we just took it.
- If anyone complained twice, they got hit so bad they never complained again.
- It was just all routine. You didn't even think about it.
- Frankie, what the fuck does 520 have to do with 469? I can't believe this guy.
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