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Leonore Lemmon: Superman wants to get laid.

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William Kunstler: We've dealt with jury tampering, wiretapping, a defendant that was literally gagged, and a judge who's been handing down rulings from the bench that would be considered wrong in Honduras, so I'm a little less interested in the law than I was when this trial began.

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Oswald Imposter: Why don't you take a flying screw at the moon and charge it to me?

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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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Edward II: I here create thee Lord High Chamberlain, Chief Secretary to the State and me, Earl of Cornwall, King and Lord of Man.
Piers Gaveston: My Lord, these titles far exceed my worth.
Edward II: Thy worth sweet friend is far above my gifts. And therefore to equal it, receive my heart.

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Petronius: It is not enough to live well. One must die well.

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King Henry viii: Mistress Anne, will you teach the king of England how they dance in the French court?
Anne: There is nothing that France can teach England, your majesty.
King Henry viii: Well said. Well said.

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Steve Schmidt: What the fuck is the Alaska Independence Party and was she ever a member of it?
Tucker Eskew: The AIP is a political party whose sole platform is the secession of Alaska from the Union.
Steve Schmidt: Well ain't that a hoot.

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Rudolf Höss, Hedwig Höss: The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice.

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Captain Alexei Vostrikov: We will not fail.

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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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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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Vera Brittain: At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.

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Kenny O'Donnell: They look warlike? Jesus Christ, we're lighting off nuclear weapons like its our own private Fourth of July.

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Paul: I've been getting complaints that you're not allowing the kitchen staff to vote today.
Timmons: They're not gonna vote. Half of them are illegal, they can't vote.

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Jacques LeGris: Here, come take some evil inside you.

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

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