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The Front Runner picture

Gary Hart: This campaign is about the future. Not rumors, not sleaze, and I care about the sanctity of this process, whether you DO OR DO not.

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

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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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Captain William Bligh: Mr. Byam, if you were loyal when Christian escaped, l would have found you dead.

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Jesus: Hate, anger, fear. Those are lies they use to turn you against each other. When you set aside the hate they force you to carry, that's when you know love is our true nature.

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Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

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Tetris picture

Alexey Pajitnov: Good ideas have no borders.

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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 Bounty picture

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

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Father Hussman: How come I never see you around church? You don't believe?
Charles Lindbergh: Well, yes, I believe. I believe in an instrument panel, a pressure gauge, a compass, things I can see and touch. I can't touch God.
Father Hussman: You're not supposed to! He touches you.

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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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Kagemusha picture

Nobukado Takeda: I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing.

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Lady Houston: I don't love the government, but I do love my country.

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Amistad picture

Calderon: What's most bewildering to Her Majesty... is this arrogant independence of the American courts. After all, if you cannot rule the courts, you cannot rule.
Martin Van Buren: Señor Calderon, as any true American will tell you, it's the independence of our courts that keeps us free.

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

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Genghis Khan picture

Emperor of China: It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages picture

Intertitle: When women cease to attract men, they often turn to reform as a second option.

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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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