Best drama movie quotes of 1972

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The Godfather picture

Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

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Edward Rutledge: Mr. Adams is now calling our black slaves "Americans." Are they, now?
John Adams: Yes, they are. They're people, and they're here. If there's any other requirement, I've never heard of it.
Edward Rutledge: They are here, yes. But they are not people, sir, they are property.
Thomas Jefferson: No, sir, they are people who are being treated as property!

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Jeremiah Johnson picture

Del Gue: Amongst lnjuns... a tribe's greatness is figured on how mighty its enemies be.

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Superfly picture

Youngblood Priest: Don't argue with me, man, I'm trying to give you a chance. Now, if you don't get me my money tonight, I'm gonna put that young girl of your's out on whore's row.
Fat Freddie: Listen, Priest, that's my wife you're talking about, man.
Youngblood Priest: So what? Now somebody's gonna work tonight, Freddie. You really shouldn'tve fcked with my money, Freddie.

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Mountain Man: Now let's you just drop them pants.

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Mike Rogo: You weren't on the streets that long! How many guys did you know! Do you realise how slim even one of those characters is on this boat.
Linda Rogo: You don't have to shout.
Mike Rogo: I said do you realise...
Linda Rogo: I heard what you said.

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Brian: Sally is rather knowledgeable in these areas.
Fritz: You do what Sally says, you end up I think in prison.

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Freeman Lowell: It calls back a time when there were flowers all over the Earth... and there were valleys. And there were plains of tall green grass that you could lie down in - you could go to sleep in. And there were blue skies, and there was fresh air... and there were things growing all over the place, not just in some domed enclosures blasted some millions of miles out in to space.

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Ogami Itto: You Yagyu's tactics are despicable.

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie picture

Colonel: I didn't know that chivalry still existed in your semi-savage country.
Rafael Acosta: Sir, you just insulted the Republic of Miranda.
Colonel: I don't give a damn about the Republic of Miranda.
Rafael Acosta: And I shit on your entire army.

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Ogami Itto: The true way of the warrior means to live by death.

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Don Lope de Aguirre: Perucho, don't you think the cannon might be a little bit rusty?
Perucho: It might.

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Tang Lung: Let him know. If I ever see him here again... he won't leave alive.

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Lenny Cantrow: They should have said that to us at the door... they should have warned us that there was a danger of running out of pecan pie.

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Krug Stillo: Goddamn high-class, tight-ass freakos. All that goddamn silverware. Who do they think they are, anyway? People in China eat with sticks, and these freaks got 16 utensils for every pea on the plate.

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Douglass Dilman: When you justify murder in the name of morality, you've done nothing but murder your morality.

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Jaime: This thing you call politics? Politics is bullshit.
Lucas: I was wondering what it was.

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