Baba Quotes in D.C. Cab (1983)

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Baba Quotes:

  • Albert Hockenberry: You're a real fine musician, Baba.

    Baba: Yeah? Well, I guess my fame and fortune attest to that. But, I'm not complaining. Music is still the best way I know to fight off a little thing I like to call 'the Big Fear.'

    Albert Hockenberry: Death.

    Baba: Death? No, it isn't death. Death, believe me, is a little fear! The Big Fear, the real fear, is that hard times might squeeze you so bad, you'll be driving *every* day of the week. It's the fear that the music you're writing, or your brilliant first novel that's like a draft away from being a best-seller, or your plans for law school, have to wait. You see, Albert, after all that it takes... the hopes and dreams, and the whole bag of tricks that you need just to walk around on the planet, well... the Big Fear, Albert, is that you're becoming a cab driver!

  • Baba: I might come late., But I will come as the latest.

  • Baba: Instead of burning with the burden of wife, children etc we could get burnt with a pile of woods.

  • Baba: There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

  • Baba: The Mullahs want to rule our souls... and the Communists tell us we don't have any.

  • Baba: [regarding the mullahs, who teach that drinking alcohol is a sin] I piss on the beards of all those self-righteous monkeys.

  • Baba: Fuck the Russia!

  • Baba: [as Dr. Starobin examines him] Where are you from?

    Dr. Starobin: I grew up in Michigan. Came out here for medical school. Once you get used to that California sunshine...

    Baba: But your family?

    Dr. Starobin: My family? We're originally from Russia.

    [Baba shoves him away, and is next seen with a different doctor]

  • Baba: Hell is not a place you go to. You carry Hell with you at all times. You carry it inside you.

  • Baba: The human soul is corrupt, it only worships power. It keeps looking for new things to worship, because it has boundaries, drawn by its masters.

  • Baba: [Before cutting out the eyes of another man] Are you ready to stop worshipping power and unite with us? Are you ready to be one with the cosmos? Are you ready to give up your worldly eyes and open your eyes to what is beyond? Open your heart to me, son. Open your mind to me.

  • Baba: You die as you sleep, you resurrect as you awake. So fear not.

  • Baba: Don't you swear at me, Master Cornelius! Or you'll spend the evening in your room.

  • Peggy Evans aka Carol Burden: Don't worry, Baba. I promise you faithfully, I won't get married - till I find someone as nice as father.

    Baba: Well, if you do, I hope you find someone with more sense.

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