Best movie quotes of 1973

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Maynard Boyle: You need a rest, Harold. A long trip to someplace quiet. Another name, another country.
Harold Young: I can't start my life over again now.
Maynard Boyle: You don't have much choice, Harold. They're gonna try to make you tell where the money is. You know what kind of people they are. They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

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Lebel: It's obvious that the Jackal has been tipped off all along, and yet he's decided to go ahead, regardless. He's simply challenged the whole lot of us.
Minister: Are you really suggesting that there's a leak from inside this room?
Lebel: I can't say. But we think that the Jackal is now in Paris with a new name and a new face, probably masquerading as a Danish schoolteacher.

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Mose: I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is... Scruples?
Addie: No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, sure bet they belong to somebody else.

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Harry Stoner: Everybody misses.
Margo: Not professionals.
Harry Stoner: Oh yeah, professionals too. Quarterbacks get knocked down, nurses get knocked up, somebody invented the Edsel. Everybody misses.

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Jackie Brown: This life's hard man, but it's harder if you're stupid.

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Ray: See that man! That's fuckin' pigs blood. If I was scared it would have been my blood.

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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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Dan Freeman: You have just played out the American dream... and now, we're gonna turn it into a nightmare.

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Mr. Bromley: It's not enough to boggle David, actions speak louder than boggles.

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Charlie: I'm as old as the hills. Mama delivered me herself. She took me from between her legs, bloody little mess. She's about to feed me to the chickens. And daddy said, "Maybe we could use a boy lottie." That's how I came into the world.

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Josef Goebbels: The heart of Germany has ceased to beat. The fuhrer is dead.

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Harve Poole: Incompetence is the worst form of corruption.

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Dr. Leah Jansen: And those jawfish! The ones I've seen have been only two inches long. Look at them.

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James Bond: I'm surprised they didn't spot you, too. There's a most remarkable girl back there with a deck of cards.
Harold Strutter: I saw those cards on the way up. Spades, James, every one. You were nailed the minute you left 74.

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Joanne: C'mere Jesus, I got something ta show ya.

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Little John: The prince? Wait a minute. There's a law against robbing royalty. I'll catch you later.

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Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas: Poachin' and killin's two different things.
T.J. Bracken: Ain't much difference killin' gators or killin' coonies. Just a little messier, that's all.

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