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You're right, Johnny, you can't win no matter what you do.
— Dirty Dancing • 1987
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker agrees with Johnny, but the agreement is bleak: whatever he does, he can't come out ahead. It reads as sympathy over a stacked deck, a situation rigged so that every choice leads to losing, rather than encouragement.
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