Best drama movie quotes of 1979

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The Warriors picture

Cyrus: Can you dig it?!

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Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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The Wanderers picture

Peewee: Nobody fucks with the Baldies.

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Carlin: Right Banks, you bastard! I'm the daddy now, next time, I'll fucking kill ya.

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Stalker: It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.

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Being There picture

Abraz: Bullshit. Who sent you here, boy? Did that chickenshit asshole Raphael send you, boy?
Chance the Gardener: No. Mr. Thomas Franklin told me I must leave the old man's house. He's dead, you know.
Abraz: Dead, my ass. You tell that asshole, if he got somethin' to tell me, to get his ass down here himself! You got that, boy?

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Bull Meechum: I am Santini, the Great Santini.
Bull Meechum: I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced.
Bull Meechum: Watch out.

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Steph: Going to be one of the faces?
Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I AM one of the faces.

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Prison Guard: Your painting privileges have been removed.
Doc: Why?
Prison Guard: I don't know.

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Berger: Bukowski.
Claude Bukowski: Yes, Sergeant.
Berger: Let's move it out.
Claude Bukowski: Yes, Sergeant.
Berger: Double time, soldier.
Claude Bukowski: Yes, Sergeant.
Claude Bukowski: Sir?
Berger: In the car, soldier.
Claude Bukowski: Yes, Sergeant.
Berger: Are you an asshole, soldier?
Claude Bukowski: No, Sergeant.
Berger: That's too bad, because I am.

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Dad: I dreamed all last night, that everyone I ever sold a car to came back for a refund. And there you were, handing out the checks! One for you, and one for you.

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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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Terry 'The Toad' Fields: Oh, come on, look at me, I'm a free man! The war is over, and I win.

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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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LAPD Captain: Any man who gives up his gun to some punk is a coward. Any man who does can kiss his badge goodbye, if I can help it. You're policemen. Put your trust in God.

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General Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.
Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.

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Jack the Ripper: We don't belong here? On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly. I'm home.

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