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Drover: We're not really used to...
Lady Sarah Ashley: A woman? I suppose you think I should be back in Darwin, at the church fete or a lady's whatever you call it. Well I will have you know, I am as capable as any man.
Drover: Guests. We're not used to guests is what I was about to say, but now that you mention it I happen to quite like the women of the outback.

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Robyn Mathers: You are dangerous.
Ellie Linton: That's what my driving instructor says.

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Ben Munceford: I've heard a lot about you, Commodore, but I never expected I'd meet you.
Commodore Schrepke: Is that so?
Ben Munceford: Not aboard an American destroyer.
Commodore Schrepke: (Is) that so surprising in these times?
Ben Munceford: I guess not, if one can make the switch mentally. But I, uh... I still connect you with... Hitler's navy.
Commodore Schrepke: Your pardon: Admiral Dönitz's navy, sir.

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Col. Mathieu: We aren't madmen or sadists, gentlemen. Those who call us Fascists today, forget the contribution that many of us made to the Resistance. Those who call us Nazis, don't know that among us there are survivors of Dachau and Buchenwald. We are soldiers and our only duty is to win.

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Sir Charles Lyndon: Have you done with my Lady?
Redmond Barry: I beg your pardon?
Sir Charles Lyndon: Come, come, sir. I'm a man who would rather be known as a cuckold than a fool.

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Sgt. Lance Dawson: Staff Sergeant Lance Dawson, United States Army, serial number DL3268.

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Hinh: Sooner or later, Mr. Fowler, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.

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Young African American male in Michigan: And I was watchin' TV one day, 'and they're showin' like some of the buildings and areas that had been hit by bombs and things like that, and while I watchin' I got to thinkin' like', "There's parts of Flint that look like that, and we ain't been in a war."

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Colonel J.S. Wilson: Why do you want to be a saboteur, Max?
Max Manus: My country was stolen from me, Sir... and I want it back.

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John Walcott: We do not write for the people who send people's kids to war. We write for the people whose kids get sent to war.

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Colonel Blount: Don't think me discourteous, but I'm afraid it's impossible for me to ask you to luncheon. I have a guest coming on intimate family business. It's some young rascal who wants to marry my daughter.
Adam Fenwick-Symes: Well, I want to marry your daughter too.
Colonel Blount: What an extraordinary thing. Are you sure?

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Sarah: I had tempted fate, and fate had accepted.

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Pierre Bezukhov: Each morning I wake up, I'm disgusted with myself with what I did the night before. I tell myself, "Today, a change."

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Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.

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Captain Weber: Heil Hitler.
Corelli: Heil Puccini.

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Capt. Jack Savage: When your number's up, why fight it, right? And if its not, why worry about it?

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Adolf Hitler: Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.

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Radio announcer: President Ford, in his foreign policy speech, hardly referred to Cambodia... except to say that, as of now, it may be too late.

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