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He who hesitates is poor.
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Angel of Death ain't kissing me! I'm full of garlic!
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!
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Ahchoo:Man, white men can't jump!!
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
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Sheriff Bart waking up a drunk Jim in jail: Are we awake?Jim 'The Waco Kid': We don't know. Are we black?Sheriff Bart: Yes we are.Jim 'The Waco Kid': Then we're awake, but we're very puzzled.
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explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. 'They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming'
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Railway Worker: You shifty nigger! They said you was hung!Sheriff Bart : And they was right!
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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Dark HelmetĀ : What? You went over my helmet?
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After I eat asparagus...
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Lady, it rose below vulgarity.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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on the greatest invention Liquid Prell.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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Jim 'The Waco Kid': My name is Jim, most people call me... Jim.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
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On Churchill's Accent 'Ve must conquer da Narjies!' Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!
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