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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Deliverance picture

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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Silent Running picture

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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Cabaret picture

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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Fred "Weasel" Podowski: How's your back, baby?

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The Man picture

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

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The Heartbreak Kid picture

Lenny Cantrow: Honey, don't put a Milky Way in somebody's mouth when they don't want it.
Lila Kolodny: Okay... you'll want it later and it will be in my tummy.

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Cigarette Girl: Cigarette?
Shaft: No, thank you. What else can you help me with?
Cigarette Girl: Well, I'm off at four o'clock.

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Mr. T: You know what's bothering me? Two things. One is I'm sorry that I can't sue you for false arrest. And the other is, there's no toilet paper in this cell.

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Lady Sings the Blues picture

Mrs. Edson: Ain't it a shame how some of God's children have it so easy, while others have it so hard?

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The Candidate picture

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

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Last Tango in Paris picture

Paul: Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never discover his wife's true nature. I may be able to understand the secrets of the universe, but... I'll never understand the truth about you. Never.

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Young Winston picture

Winston Churchill: I'm free! I'm free! I'm Winston Bloody Churchill and I'm free.

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Leon Trotsky: It's hard living with an old revolutionary. You should have been with us when we stormed the Winter Palace! With Lenin in Moscow in the early days! What happiness to be alive - to be fighting then.

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Randy: You bunch of female jock-strappers.

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