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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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Mary, Queen of Scots picture

William Cecil: But with Dudley comes the future crown of England. No true monarch will turn her back on that, not even Mary of Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth: That monarch is first a woman.
William Cecil: You would never ignore such an offer for a pretty fellow.
Queen Elizabeth: This woman is first a monarch.

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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel picture

Field Marshal Keitel: Have you any better suggestions?
Field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt: Yes, one very much better. Make peace, you idiot.

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Flight 93 picture

Todd Beamer: Come on, guys, what are we waiting for? Let's roll. Come on, let's go already.

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The Conqueror picture

Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.

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The Doors picture

Dog: Excuse me, sir. Who's flying this plane right now?

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye picture

Rachel Grover: Oh, Tammy Faye. You follow blindly. In the end, all you are is blind.

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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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Centurion picture

Bothos: Quintus, what's she doing?
Brick: She's a Pict and a woman - two good reasons not to trust her.

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom picture

Nelson Mandela: I have walked a long walk to freedom. It has been a lonely road, and it is not over yet. I know that my country, was not made to be a land of hatred. No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin. People learn to hate. They can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart.

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United 93 picture

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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7 Days in Entebbe picture

Wilfried Böse: I didn't agree to this, I'm not a Nazi.

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Restoration picture

Lady Celia Clemence: We live in an age when many are made fools and many are deceived.

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Eight Men Out picture

Chick Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.
Sport Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find that hard to believe.
Chick Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

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1492: Conquest of Paradise picture

Columbus: Why do you want to help me?
Santangel: Faith, hope, charity. But greater than all these is banking.

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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight picture

James Gordon: Wayne promised this world's fair would be a paradise of cleanliness and light. But what does a light in the darkness do? It draws flies. Vile, unclean like you.

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Judgment at Nuremberg picture

Emil Hahn: Today, you sentence me! Tomorrow, the Bolsheviks sentence you.

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