Best movie quotes of 1973

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Enter the Dragon picture

Han: Gentlemen, welcome. You honor our island. I look forward to a tournament of truly epic proportions. We are unique, gentlemen, in that we create ourselves... through long years of rigorous training, sacrifice, denial, pain. We forge our bodies in the fire of our will. But tonight, let us celebrate. Gentlemen, you have our gratitude.

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The Three Musketeers picture

Porthos: May one ask - delicately - the cause in which we're expected to die?
Aramis: When you go on a campaign, does the King give his reasons? He says, "Porthos, fight!" and you fight.
Porthos: Oh, I do, I do.
Aramis: Then let's go and be killed where we're told to! Is life worth so many questions?

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Sleeper picture

Luna: It's hard to believe you haven't had sex in two hundred years.
Miles: Two hundred and four if you count my marriage.

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Emperor of the North Pole picture

A no. 1: Country's gone to hell.

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Shaft in Africa picture

Jazar: How long is your phallus, Mr. Shaft?
Shaft: My what?
Jazar: Your cock?
Shaft: Baby, by now it shrunk down to 20 inches.

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Charlotte's Web picture

Wilbur: Are you writers?
Charlotte's daughters: No, but we will be when we grow up.
Wilbur: Then write this in your webs, when you learn: This hallowed doorway was once the home of Charlotte. She was brilliant, beautiful, and loyal to the end. Her memory will be treasured forever.
Charlotte's daughters: Ooh, that would take us a lifetime.
Wilbur: A lifetime. That's what we have.

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes picture

Caesar: Ah, if only my mother and father, whom I was too young to remember... If only they'd lived, perhaps they would have taught me if it was right to kill evil so that good shall prevail.
MacDonald: But you know, Caesar, history shows.
Caesar: Oh no, no, no. That is human history, not ape history. Ape, never kills ape.

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Cop Killers picture

Ray: See that man! That's fuckin' pigs blood. If I was scared it would have been my blood.

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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving picture

Linus van Pelt: What are you going to do on Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: My mother and dad, and Sally and I are all going to my grandmother's for dinner.
Sally Brown: Why don't you come along, Linus? We can hold hands under the table.
Linus van Pelt: Blah.

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Executive Action picture

Oswald Imposter: Why don't you take a flying screw at the moon and charge it to me?

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Cinderella Liberty picture

Lynn Forshay: Let me give you one piece of advice, one old salt to another... Ah, to hell with advice.

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No Sex Please - We're British picture

Mr. Bromley: It's not enough to boggle David, actions speak louder than boggles.

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Badlands picture

Kit Carruthers: You Tired?
Holly Sargis: Yeah.
Kit Carruthers: Yeah, you look tired... Listen, honey. When all this is over, I'm going to sit down and buy you a big, thick steak.
Holly Sargis: I don't want a steak.
Kit Carruthers: Well, we'll see about that... Hey, lookie.

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Messiah of Evil picture

Charlie: I'm as old as the hills. Mama delivered me herself. She took me from between her legs, bloody little mess. She's about to feed me to the chickens. And daddy said, "Maybe we could use a boy lottie." That's how I came into the world.

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'Gator Bait picture

T.J. Bracken: Pete Bracken! I oughta kill you, ya horny bastard! That there's your sister! What the hell you tryin'a do? Get her knocked up with some dimwit kid turn out like you? Huh?

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Electra Glide in Blue picture

Harve Poole: Incompetence is the worst form of corruption.

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Oklahoma Crude picture

Hellman: Isn't that just like a woman? She wants to be treated like a man... and then she cries.

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The Neptune Factor picture

Dr. Leah Jansen: And those jawfish! The ones I've seen have been only two inches long. Look at them.

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Day of the Dolphin picture

Harold DeMilo: Are you blackmailing me Mr Mahoney?
Curtis Mahoney: Goodness no... I'm just an average person with an above average curiosity... and of course I don't make make friends easy.

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