Best movie quotes of 1983

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Sleepaway Camp picture

Billy: Eat shit and die, Ricky.
Ricky: Eat shit and live, Bill.

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WarGames picture

David Lightman: [On the computer] Hello, are you still playing the game?
Joshua: Of course. I should reach Defcon 1 and release my missiles in 28 hours. Would you like to see some projected kill ratios?
David Lightman: Sixty-nine percent of the housing destroyed. Seventy-two million people dead. [Types into computer] Is this a game or is it real?
Joshua: What's the difference?

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Mom: Ralphie, what would you like for Christmas?
Adult Ralphie: Horrified, I heard myself blurt it out.
Ralphie: I want an official Red Ryder carbine action two hundred shot range model air rifle.
Mom: No. You'll shoot your eye out.

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Steve: Beer for breakfast there, Two-Bit?

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Cousin Vicki: I'm going steady, and I French kiss.
Audrey Griswold: So? Everybody does that.
Cousin Vicki: Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it.

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Michael: [At the wake.] Great tradition! They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come!

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Dakota: How would you like to bite that in the butt, develop lockjaw, and be dragged to death?

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Trading Places picture

Louis Winthorpe III: He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like oh, sure he went to Harvard.

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Emma Horton: Some people say Des Moines is the best city in Iowa.

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Kathryn Morgan: Overman was killed inside the park. The baby was caught inside the park. Its mother is inside the park.

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Harvey "Blind" Pew: It sounded as though there was a bit of a squabble.
Moon: Squabble? They're all dead.
Harvey "Blind" Pew: Oh! Must have been more of a tiff then.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi picture

Yoda: When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not.

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Scrooge: What's she cooking, a canary? Surely they have more food than that. Look on the fire.
Ghost of Christmas Present: Huh, where? Oh, that's your laundry.

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Joel Goodson: Looks like the University of Illinois.

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Phar Lap picture

Sub Editor: We have two versions ready to go. If he wins, "Australian wonder horse beats the world."
News writer: And if he loses?
Sub Editor: "New Zealand horse fails in Mexico."

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Ralph de Bricassart: How will we live without him?
Meggie Cleary: We will. Your God gathers in the good ones... and leaves the living to those of us whom fail. Your greedy God! There is no peace with him.

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