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Carlos picture

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka 'Carlos': My name is Carlos. You may have heard of me.

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Archie Gates: You know you're on the path to truth when you smell shit, isn't that what they say?

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Bligh: Do you really think you'll be able to command this rabble?
Christian: I'll do my best.
Bligh: Well I did my best, and I had the authority of the law. You're a dead man Fletcher.

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Contessina de Medici: Your question insults us both.

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Derek Bentley: Let him have it, Chris.

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Katharine: Every man on earth has his leaving step. If my husband had been a small man, he would not have been able to leave me. But he was a large man, and stepped over me as I slept, one great stride.

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Gary Hart: This campaign is about the future. Not rumors, not sleaze, and I care about the sanctity of this process, whether you DO OR DO not.

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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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Gunner Robert Smith: Food rule number one: If it's full of vitamins, it tastes like shit.

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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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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages picture

Intertitle: Out of the cradle, endlessly rocking.

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Charlie Duke: I was able to look out of the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

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Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.

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Eva Braun: Now why is it, Herr Hitler, that no photographer has ever been able to capture the incredible magnetism of your eyes?

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Hunlun: My son has won the world. Still he must conquer that red-headed Jezebel.

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Elvis: No, that's cool man. Buzz sent me one too.

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Ben Bradlee: He says we can't, I say we can. There, you're caught up.

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Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.

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Karan: Dad, please don't start this lecture.
Rajnath Singhania: SMS Generation! Say four lines, and they call it a lecture.

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