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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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Heydrich: Look at the world and tell me the pleasures of sanity.

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JFK (1991)

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

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Queen Adelaide: You are confusing stubbornness with strength, my dear. And I warn you, the people will not like you for it.

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Tsar Nicholas II: All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy... and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more! Sweet Jesus how much do you want of me?

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Sun Shangxiang: Here I am.
Zhou Yu: Why are you here?
Sun Shangxiang: To fight.
Zhou Yu: Fight? War is no joking matter.
Sun Shangxiang: You think I'm joking? Women have a duty to serve the Empire.
Zhou Yu: So does a horse.

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Fielding: Father, he's done this penance long enough, and well, the other brothers think the same.
Gabriel: But he doesn't think so, John. Until he does, neither do I.

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

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Caliph's brother: Thoughts have wings. No one can prevent them from flying.

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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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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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Lenka Fafková: We've been fighting the occupation in our own ways.

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Peter Handcock: Well, they say a slice off a cut loaf is never missed.

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Fletcher Christian: There'll be no more killing aboard this ship, not even Captain Bligh.
Captain Bligh: If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.

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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?

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Sir Amyas Paulet: The Queen orders these measures for your protection.
Mary Stuart: The Queen? I am a queen. They call her The Virgin Queen. Why is that, sir? Can it be that no man will have her?

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Dr. Burghart Kroll: Your pen. Your sword.

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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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