Best movie quotes of 1979

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The Warriors picture

Cyrus: Can you dig it?!

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Quadrophenia picture

Steph: Going to be one of the faces?
Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I AM one of the faces.

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Apocalypse Now picture

Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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The Wanderers picture

Peewee: Nobody fucks with the Baldies.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian picture

Boring Prophet: There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.

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The Great Santini picture

Bull Meechum: I am Santini, the Great Santini.
Bull Meechum: I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced.
Bull Meechum: Watch out.

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Being There picture

Abraz: Bullshit. Who sent you here, boy? Did that chickenshit asshole Raphael send you, boy?
Chance the Gardener: No. Mr. Thomas Franklin told me I must leave the old man's house. He's dead, you know.
Abraz: Dead, my ass. You tell that asshole, if he got somethin' to tell me, to get his ass down here himself! You got that, boy?

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Moonraker picture

[The staff of MI6 are watching a large screen that shows Bond and Dr. Goodhead making love in space.]
Minister: My god, what's Bond doing!?
Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.

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Rocky II picture

Rocky Balboa: I just got one thing to say... to my wife at home: Yo, Adrian! I DID IT.

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Scum picture

Carlin: Right Banks, you bastard! I'm the daddy now, next time, I'll fucking kill ya.

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Stalker picture

Stalker: It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.

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Alien picture

Ripley: Did you ever ship out with Ash before?
Dallas: I went out five times with another science officer. They replaced him two days before we left Thedus with Ash. Hmm?
Ripley: I don't trust him.
Dallas: Well, I don't trust anybody.

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Escape from Alcatraz picture

Prison Guard: Your painting privileges have been removed.
Doc: Why?
Prison Guard: I don't know.

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Mad Max picture

Grease Rat: Like the sign says, "speed's just a question of money. How fast you wanna go?"

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Hair picture

Hippy: The draft is white people sending black people to make war on the yellow people to defend the land they stole from the red people.

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Phantasm picture

Mike: I know you're not going to believe this, but these things were here, right in the garage, and they were going to get me.
Jody: Aww, give me a break, would you?
Mike: They were jumping on the car and making these weird sounds.
Jody: You're sure it wasn't that retarded kid, Timmy, up the street?
Mike: No, it was the same thing that chased me last night.

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Rock 'n' Roll High School picture

Riff Randell: Tom Roberts is so boring his brother is an only child.

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The Electric Horseman picture

Wendall: I'm gonna get me a bottle of tequila and find me one of them Keno girls that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch and just kinda kick back.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture picture

Spock: Each of us... At some time in our lives, turns to someone - a father, a brother, a God... And asks..."Why am I here? What was I meant to be?"

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