- "Surely you can't be serious."
- "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
Airplane! (1980)
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"And Leon is getting laaaaarrrrrger!"
Airplane! (1980)

- "You ever been in a cockpit before?"
- "No, sir. I've never been up in a plane before?"
- "You ever seen a grown man naked?"
Airplane! (1980)
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"Well, I'll give him another 20 minutes, but that's it."
Airplane! (1980)
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"Yes, it used to be beautiful - what with the rackets, whoring, guns."
Atlantic City (1980)

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God."
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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"...And here is your receipt."
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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"This is glue. Strong stuff."
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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"So we finish 18 and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, 'Hey, Lama! Hey! How about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that going for me, which is nice."
Caddyshack (1980)
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"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"
Caddyshack (1980)
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"Hey, everybody, we're all gonna get laid."
Caddyshack (1980)
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"Aw, this is the worst lookin' hat I ever saw! What, when you buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you, though."
Caddyshack (1980)
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"I am not an animal! I am a human being."
Elephant Man (1980)
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"I am your father."
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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"May the Force be with you."
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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"He-e-e-e-re's Johnnie!"
The Shining (1980)
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"Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair on your chiny-chin-chin? Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."
The Shining (1980)
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"Wendy...darling. Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya... I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the f--k in."
The Shining (1980)
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- "I'm going to take a bath."
- "I'll alert the media."
Arthur (1981)

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
Body Heat (1981)

"No wire hangers. No wire hangers, EVER!"
Mommie Dearest (1981)
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"Don't f--k with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo."
Mommie Dearest (1981)
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"Tina, bring me the axe."
Mommie Dearest (1981)
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- "Norman. Come here. Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."
- "I don't hear a thing."
On Golden Pond (1981)
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"Ya wanna dance or would you rather just suck face?"
On Golden Pond (1981)
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"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're gonna get back on that horse and I'm gonna be right behind you, holding on tight and away we're gonna go, go, go!"
On Golden Pond (1981)
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"Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?"
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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- "Get back to Cairo. Get us some transport to England: boat, plane, anything. Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck."
- "How?"
- "I don't know. I'm making this up as I go."
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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- "You're not the man I knew ten years ago."
- "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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- "Hey, what happened? You don't look very happy."
- "Fools. Bureaucratic fools!"
- "What'd they say?"
- "They don't know what they've got there."
- "Well, I know what I've got here. Come on, I'll buy you a drink. You know, a drink?"
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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- "You're a lean, mean fighting machine."
- "I'll do it."
Stripes (1981)
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."
Blade Runner (1982)
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- "Conan, what is best in life?"
- "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
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"E.T. phone home."
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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"Damn you! I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"
My Favorite Year (1982)
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"You better stop eyeballin' me, boy!"
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
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"They're here!"
Poltergeist (1982)
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"That is one nutty hospital."
Tootsie (1982)
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"I was a better man with you, as a woman, than I ever was with a woman, as a man. Know what I mean? I just gotta learn to do it without the dress."
Tootsie (1982)

"That's the great thing about the outdoors, it's one giant toilet."
The Big Chill (1983)

"Stop that train!"
The Dresser (1983)

"When you give up your dreams, you die."
Flashdance (1983)

- "When he comes back, I won't get in the way."
- "It's not like that at all. He's my brother."
Return of the Jedi (1983)
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"No bucks, no Buck Rogers."
The Right Stuff (1983)
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"The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world. He was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
The Right Stuff (1983)
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"Every now and then, say 'What the f--k!' 'What the f--k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future."
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AND
(later, in voice-over) "My name is Joel Goodsen. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?"
Risky Business (1983)

"I'm Tony Montana. You f--k with me, you f--kin' with the best!"
Scarface (1983)
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"Say 'hello' to my little friend!"
Scarface (1983)
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"Go ahead, make my day."
Sudden Impact (1983)
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"Yeah, you're a legend in your own mind."
Sudden Impact (1983)

"Mama, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that."
Terms of Endearment (1983)

- "I'm going steady. And I French kiss."
- "So, everybody does that."
- "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it."
(National Lampoon's) Vacation (1983)
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"I think you're all f--ked in the head. We're ten hours from the f--kin' fun park and you want to bail out. Well, I'll tell ya something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun. I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much f--king fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our god-damn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of your assholes! Ha, ha, ha. I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy S--t!"
(National Lampoon's) Vacation (1983)
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"...These feelings make you do things you wouldn't normally do....Yeah, like swimming naked with girls..."
(National Lampoon's) Vacation (1983)
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"...Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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"Good evening. Welcome to China Blue Airlines, Flight 69, nonstop service to paradise. We'll be taking off shortly. I'll be unbuckling your belt and seeing that big bird rise and rise, finally settling into the comfort only this wide body can provide. We're here to serve you. Please remember that, although we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we will never run out of T-W-A-tea."
Crimes of Passion (1984)

"And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!"
Dune (1984)
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"Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"
Ghostbusters (1984)
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"He slimed me."
Ghostbusters (1984)
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"We came. We saw. We kicked its ass."
Ghostbusters (1984)
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"Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?"
Sixteen Candles (1984)
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"I'll be back."
The Terminator (1984)
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- "It's such a fine line between stupid and..."
- "...and clever."
- "Yeah, clever."
- "It's just a turn about."
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

- "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
- "These go to eleven."
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

"Money talks, and bulls--t walks."
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

- "Hey, Doc. We better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88."
- "Roads? Where we're going we don't need - roads."
Back to the Future (1985)
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"This is what makes time travel possible - the flux capacitor!"
Back to the Future (1985)

"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"
The Breakfast Club (1985)
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"He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died..."
Clue (1985)

"Say it! Say it! Say 'I lost the nest-egg.' Go on, say it!"
Lost in America (1985)

"Perhaps he knew, as I didn't, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road."
Out of Africa (1985)

- "I know you are, but what am I?
- "You're a nerd."
- "I know you are, but what am I?"
- "You're an idiot."
- "I know you are, but what am I?"
- (together) "I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am I?"
- "Infinity."
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
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- "Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie?"
- "I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it."
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
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- "You never had your hands on a teat before."
- "Not one this big."
Witness (1985)
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"You be careful out among them, English."
Witness (1985)

"Get away from her, you BITCH!"
Aliens (1986)
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"It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chain saws out. This is the mighty W-O-O-D. At the sound of the falling tree, it's 9:30. There's a whole lot of wood out there, so let's get goin'."
Blue Velvet (1986)

"Mommy...Oh, Mommy, Mommy...Baby wants to f--k...Don't you f--kin' look at me!"
Blue Velvet (1986)
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"The street light makes my pussy hair glow in the dark. Cotton candy - the glow."
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Dirty Dancing (1987)
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"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it. Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it."
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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"Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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"You're still here? It's over! Go home. Go!"
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
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"Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?"
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

"Feed me! Feed me!"
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
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-- "I feel the need..."
-- "...the need for speed!"
Top Gun (1986)
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"...I'm NOT gonna be ignored."
Fatal Attraction (1987)
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"My thoughts drift back to erect nipple wet dreams about Mary Jane Rottencrotch and the Great Homecoming Fuck Fantasy. I'm so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of s--t, yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid."
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
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"Goooood morning, Vietnam!"
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
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"I'm too old for this s--t."
Lethal Weapon (1987)
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(Two slaps across the face) "Snap out of it!"
Moonstruck (1987)
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"But love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflake is perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die."
Moonstruck (1987)

- "You're hit. You're bleedin', man!"
- "I ain't got time to bleed."
Predator (1987)
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
The Princess Bride (1987)
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
The Princess Bride (1987)

- "Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow."
- "As you wish."
The Princess Bride (1987)
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- "My name is H.I. McDonnough. Call me Hi. The first time I met Ed was in the county Iockup in Tempe, Arizona."
- "Don't forget his profile, Ed."
- "Turn to the right."
- "A day I'll never forget."
- "Turn to the right."
- "What kind of name is that for a pretty thing like you?"
- "Short for Edwina. Turn to the right!"
- "You're a flower, you are. Just a little desert flower. Let me know how those come out."
Raising Arizona (1987)
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- "You're not just telling us what we want to hear?"
- "No, sir, no way."
- "'Cause we just want to hear the truth."
- "Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear."
- "Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
- "Yes, sir."
- "Okay, then."
Raising Arizona (1987)
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"Son, you got a panty on your head."
Raising Arizona (1987)
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"Excuse me, is that your nose, or did a bus park on your face?"
Roxanne (1987)
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"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind."
Wall Street (1987)
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"Lunch is for wimps."
Wall Street (1987)

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now."
Withnail & I (1987)
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"It wasn't just a story, was it?"
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
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"Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good Scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, over-rated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there oughtta be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Goodnight."
Bull Durham (1988)
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"This is the damnedest season I've ever seen. I mean, the Durham Bulls can't lose and I can't get laid."
Bull Durham (1988)
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"The royal penis is clean, your Highness!"
Coming to America (1988)
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"Yippie kay-yay, motherf--ker."
Die Hard (1988)
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"Fellas, last year I made three million dollars. But your fifty thousand was the most fun. Are you ready? Then, let's go get 'em."
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
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"It's K-K-K-Ken c-c-c-coming to k-k-k-kill me!"
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"Don't, uh, ever, ever, EVER call me stupid! OK?"
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

- "Nice beaver."
- "Thank you. I just had it stuffed."
- "Let me help you with that."
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
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"He's on life-support. Doctors say he's got a 50/50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that."
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
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- "All airlines have crashed at one time or another. That doesn't mean that they are not safe."
- " Quantas."
- "Quantas?"
- " Quantas never crashed."
Rain Man (1988)
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"I'll let you in on a little secret, Ray. K-Mart sucks."
Rain Man (1988)

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
They Live (1988)
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"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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"P-p-p-please!"
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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"Hide me, Eddie, p-p-p-puh-leeeease."
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

"So tell me, Eddie, is that a rabbit in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Working Girl (1988)
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"Wait'll they get a load of me."
Batman (1989)
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"I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman."
Batman (1989)
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"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
Batman (1989)
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"...But If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe -- hear it? -- Carpe, Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
Dead Poets Society (1989)
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"Hoke, you're my best friend."
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

"If you build it, he will come."
Field of Dreams (1989)
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"Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?"
Field of Dreams (1989)

"I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it."
Pink Cadillac (1989)

"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen."
Say Anything... (1989)

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."
Say Anything... (1989)
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"Was it as good for you as it was for me?"
The War of the Roses (1989)
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- "There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance...."
- "Which one am I?"
- "You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance, but you think you're low maintenance."
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

- "Oh... Oh god... Ooo Oh God... Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh God... Oh yeah, right there... Oh! Oh... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes... Oh... Oh... Yes Yes Yes.... Oh... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes... Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh God Oh... Oh... Huh..."
- "I'll have what she's having."
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
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- "You realize, of course, that we could never be friends."
- "Why not?"
- "What I'm saying is, and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form, is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way."
- "That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved."
- "No, you don't."
- "Yes, I do."
- "No, you don't."
- "Yes, I do."
- "You only think you do."
- "You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?"
- "No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you."
- "They do not."
- "Do too."
- "They do not."
- "Do too."
- "How do you know?"
- "Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her."
- "So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?"
- "No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too."
- "What if they don't want to have sex with you?"
- "Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story."
- "Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then."
- "I guess not."
- "That's too bad. You were the only person that I knew in New York."
When Harry Met Sally.... (1989)
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- "I love that you get cold when it's seventy-one degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're lookin' at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely. And it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
- "You see, that is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you. And I hate you, Harry. I really hate you."
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
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