Best movie quotes of 1973

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The Day of the Jackal picture

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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Paper Moon picture

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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The Friends of Eddie Coyle picture

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

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Enter the Dragon picture

Han: Gentlemen, welcome. You honor our island. I look forward to a tournament of truly epic proportions. We are unique, gentlemen, in that we create ourselves... through long years of rigorous training, sacrifice, denial, pain. We forge our bodies in the fire of our will. But tonight, let us celebrate. Gentlemen, you have our gratitude.

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Save the Tiger picture

Myra: Are you OK? Do you want something?
Harry Stoner: Yes. I want that girl in a Cole Porter song. I wanna see Lena Horne at the Cotton Club - hear Billie Holiday sing fine and mellow - walk in that kind of rain that never washes perfume away. I wanna be in love with something. Anything. Just the idea. A dog, a cat. Anything. Just something.

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Porthos: May one ask - delicately - the cause in which we're expected to die?
Aramis: When you go on a campaign, does the King give his reasons? He says, "Porthos, fight!" and you fight.
Porthos: Oh, I do, I do.
Aramis: Then let's go and be killed where we're told to! Is life worth so many questions?

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White Lightning picture

Vinnie Carruthers: What happened to you?
Gator McKlusky: I was tryin' to save these two buddies of mine from getting knocked up by a homosexual.
Vinnie Carruthers: Oh, praise god.

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Breezy picture

Frank Harmon: Miss... I don't pick up hitchhikers.
Breezy: That's the best news I've heard all day.

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Badlands picture

Holly Sargis: He needed me now more than ever, but something had come between us. I'd stopped even paying attention to him. Instead I sat in the car and read a map and spelled out entire sentences with my tongue on the roof of mouth where nobody could read them.

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Deputy - Billy Boy: She ain't got no choice. She either screws us, or she gets behind bars. Puttin' a wildcat like that behind bars is bad.
Ben Bracken: Yeah, Leroy tried to get him a piece o' her. You know what she did? She cut his balls off!
Deputy - Billy Boy: That's 'cause your brother's stupid. We ain't stupid.

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Hatcher: So, you finally made it. Do you know what time it is?
Det. Thorn: You tell me. You're the only one here who has a wristwatch.
Hatcher: I can't. The damn thing won't run.

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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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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving picture

Charlie Brown: Holidays always depress me.
Sally Brown: I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree and all they have are things for Christmas.
Charlie Brown: For Christmas, already?

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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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Maggie Paul: Why is it everybody else gets chicken and I always get the feathers?

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

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Hope Springs: It's not her fault she has to wear a falsie.
Sid Fiddler: What do you mean, "a" falsie?
Hope Springs: She's got one bigger than the other.
Sid Fiddler: Is that right?
Hope Springs: No, left.

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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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