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Amazing Grace picture

John Newton: Although my memory's fading, I remember two things. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

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JFK (1991)

JFK picture

Jim Garrison: White is black, and black is white.

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Munich picture

Steve: Don't fuck with the Jews.

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Daskal: Get back in the tank.
Kaminski: What for?
Daskal: Because I said so.
Golikov: We're going home, sir.
Daskal: Yeah. In the tank.
Kaminski: Why can't we go home in the fucking helicopter?
Daskal: Because you're tankers.

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RAdm. Tamon Yamaguchi: Once, we filled the sky with our aircraft. Now we win or lose with six fighters and ten torpedo planes.

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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: Between us, I'd say he's had it.
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Yeah? What do you expect from a teetotal, non-smoking vegetarian?

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Allison Jimeno: How am I supposed to tell Bianca that her father is dead?

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The Butler picture

Gloria Gaines: Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.

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The Stranger: Let's proceed with caution. These madmen could eat us.
The Time Traveller: They liked your hair.
The Stranger: Of course, I'm a writer. Writer's always have good hair.

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The Libertine picture

Rochester: And yet you do not draw the moral of the incident.
Billy Downs: Which is?
Rochester: That any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense. Mark it well.

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Thomas a Becket: It is here now, the supreme folly, this is its hour.

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Farmer: Every time one of these Lancasters fly over, my chickens lay premature eggs.

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Samson: Your arms were quicksand. Your kiss was death. The name Delilah will be an everlasting curse on the lips of men.

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Hap Felsch: I may be dumb, fellas, but I ain't stupid.

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Eddie: Of course, I couldn't tell the kids at school I was a transvestite. They's kill me with sticks. "Why are we killing him with sticks?" "I don't know... he said a word we didn't understand... and he won at Scrabble with it..."

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Professor Godbhole: Nothing you do will change the outcome.
Richard Fielding: So "Do nothing!" Is that your philosophy?
Professor Godbhole: My philosophy is you can do what you like... but the outcome will be the same.

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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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Honor Elizabeth Wainio: Hi, Mom, it's me. I'm on the plane that's been hijacked. I'm just calling to tell you that I love you, and goodbye. This really kind woman handed me the phone and she said to call you.

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Guilford: Tell me, did you see his chest?
Jane: Yes, it was marked.
Guilford: No, it wasn't. It was branded. A mark burnt into him with a red-hot iron.

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