For Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger, already an established movie superstar, earned $17 million, which, given his character's laconicism, translated into roughly $21,000 per word. That is, for just one of his iconic phrases, "Hasta la vista, baby," the actor earned way more than for the entire first Terminator movie.
However, the significance of wise, beautiful, or simply catchy phrases can sometimes be far more important to people than any amount of money. Simply because such a phrase can often truly change a person's life. As it happened, for example, with the heroes of this collection of stories.
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