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K-19: The Widowmaker picture

Captain Alexei Vostrikov: We will not fail.

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Zulu Dawn picture

General Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.
Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.

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Black Robe picture

Daniel: They have an afterworld of their own.
Father Laforgue: They have no concept of one.
Daniel: Annuka told me they believe that in the forest at night the dead can see. The souls of men hunt the souls of animals.
Father Laforgue: Is that what she told you? It is childish, Daniel.
Daniel: Is it harder to believe in than Paradise where we all sit on clouds and look at God?

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Babylon picture

Elinor St. John: Oh why do I bother? Look at these idiots! I knew Proust, you know.

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Fahrenheit 9/11 picture

George W. Bush: Sure a dictatorship would be easier.

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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple picture

Deborah Layton: Nobody joins a cult. Nobody joins something they think's gonna hurt them. You join a religious organization, you join a political movement, and you join with people that you really like..

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The Passion of Joan of Arc picture

Juge: Has God promised you things?
Jeanne d'Arc: That has nothing to do with this trial.

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The Alamo picture

William Travis: One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

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All the President's Men picture

Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.

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The Egyptian picture

Nefer: No. I brought you here only to show you the gate in my garden wall. Later, when all of my guests have gone... I will be here by my lotus pool.
Sinuhe: Why do you tell me this?
Nefer: Perhaps because I am fond of gifts, and the greatest gift any man can bring to a woman is his innocence, which he can give only once.

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Sunshine picture

Gustave: I'll never forgive you, you know.
Valerie: For what?
Gustave: For marrying him instead of me.

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Tetris picture

Henk Rogers: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Eddie. Nintendo is letting me become a publisher. Nintendo. It's a license to print money.

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Conspiracy picture

Klopfer: I take it that you do not get good food up in Krakow?
Dr. Joseph Bühler: If all of Berlin eats like you, it's no wonder we have shortages.

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A Dry White Season picture

Ben du Toit: You must not give up hope, Emily.
Stanley Makhaya: Hope's a white word, laanie. It's not hope we need.

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The Bounty picture

Seaman John Adams: Any fool can steer a ship, sir. It's just knowing where to take it.

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The Assassination of Trotsky picture

Leon Trotsky: It's hard living with an old revolutionary. You should have been with us when we stormed the Winter Palace! With Lenin in Moscow in the early days! What happiness to be alive - to be fighting then.

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Duke d'Escargot: I warn you gentlemen, I am not to be trifled with. To pull the tail of a lion is to open the mouth of trouble and reveal the teeth of revenge biting the tongue of deceit.

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The Winter War picture

Aatos Laitila: If it gets any colder we'll need dynamite to break up the cheese.
Arvi Huhtala: Let Russian artillery do it for us.

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Let Him Have It picture

Derek Bentley: Let him have it, Chris.

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