Best movie quotes of 1979

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V.I.N.CENT: To quote Cicero: rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor.

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Lupin III: That's Zenigata, truly the ideal of the Shoowa Period. A man incomparable for his determination to his work.

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Navin R. Johnson: Why are you crying? And why are you wearing that old dress?
Marie: Because I just heard a song on the radio that reminded me of the way we were.
Navin R. Johnson: What was it?
Marie: "The Way We Were."

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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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Dad: Refund? Refund? Are you crazy! Refund? Refund? Refund?

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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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Twiki: I'm freezing my ball-bearings off.

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Mr. Mike: What you are about to see is not for the weak. It is not even for the strong.

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H.G. Wells: You mentioned your husband before.
Amy Robbins: My ex, yeah. I was married for a while, when I was very young. We met during an anti-war demonstration.
Wells: Ah, the Second World War?
Amy: Are you kidding? How old do you think I am?
Wells: Oh, I'm sorry, the Third World War?

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Captain Mike Turner: In times of real trouble, the one thing man can depend on is the sympathy of the bank.

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Isaac Davis: I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order.
Yale: Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis: Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.

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Jesus: Forgive them father, for they don't know what they do.

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Laurie Bolander: Andy, Andy, you don't think we'd be in Vietnam unless the President knew a few things we don't know, huh?
Andy Henderson: Not so loud, you're embarrassing me.

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Wally Stanton: I see that you're keeping up with the Agatha Christie affair. Tell me, do you think that she is dead? Everyone seems to.
Agatha Christie: They do, don't they?
Wally Stanton: That is all except her husband. I read this morning that he offered five hundred pounds for information. What do you think?
Agatha Christie: Perhaps that is all she is worth.

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Peter West: What is all this about the dead coming back to life again and... having to be killed a second time? I mean, what the hell's going on here?

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David Halloran: You've got to go to him, and I've got to turn and walk away.

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