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Mitchell Garabedian: If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse them.

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Anne Frank: You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.

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Carl: When you're black, it's almost like having a gun pointing right at your face.

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Li Mu Bai: The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

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Eddie Lowery: Hey Francis, I had a dream last night that you shot a 72.
Francis Ouimet: Yeah, it won't be easy in a northeaster.
Eddie Lowery: Come on. You played the course like a one-legged dog how many times.
Francis Ouimet: You're right. Good day for 72.
Eddie Lowery: Okey-dokey, time to smokey.

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Tyler Winklevoss: I'm six-five,220 pounds, and there are two of me.

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Juliet Ashton: Do you suppose it's possible for us to already belong to someone before we've met them?

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Queen Adelaide: You are confusing stubbornness with strength, my dear. And I warn you, the people will not like you for it.

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Father Valignano: An army of two.

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Sun Shangxiang: Here I am.
Zhou Yu: Why are you here?
Sun Shangxiang: To fight.
Zhou Yu: Fight? War is no joking matter.
Sun Shangxiang: You think I'm joking? Women have a duty to serve the Empire.
Zhou Yu: So does a horse.

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JFK (1991)

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Jim Garrison: White is black, and black is white.

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King John: I am the blood! I am God's right hand! And you will never dictate to me how I am to be a king.

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Tsar Nicholas II: All my life. My whole life I've done what you want. I gave mother up. You hated her, so we don't see her anymore. I gave my friends up. Do you know I haven't a single friend? I've got my family. Four girls, one sick boy... and you. I ask myself, before I eat, sleep, or change my clothes, is this what Sunny wants? And it never is. There's always more! Sweet Jesus how much do you want of me?

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Joe Kenehan: You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know about the enemy.

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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: Between us, I'd say he's had it.
SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Yeah? What do you expect from a teetotal, non-smoking vegetarian?

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Caliph's brother: Thoughts have wings. No one can prevent them from flying.

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