- Daria Morgendorffer: Do you think I complain too much?
- Thomas 'Tom' Sloane: What are you bitching about now?
- Daria Morgendorffer: This isn't about whether I like soda. It's about whether a public high school should be using its status as a place of authority to serve as one more marketing tentacle of Corporate America, with the taxpayers subsidizing it.
- Mr. Lamm: Surely you give your friends enough credit to know when they're being taught and when they're being sold to.
- Daria Morgendorffer: I give them enough credit to figure out about three seconds after those machines arrive that they can't trust the institution; the few who still do.