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Movie Quote of the Day – No Way Out, 1950 (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Dr. Luther Brooks: Don’t cry, white boy, you’re gonna live.
Movie Quote of the Day – Panic in the Streets, 1950 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton ‘Clint’ Reed M.D.: You know, my mother always told me if you looked deep enough in anybody… you’d always find some good, but I don’t know.
Capt. Tom Warren: With apologies to your mother, that’s the second mistake she made.
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton ‘Clint’ Reed M.D.: I should have seen that one coming.
Movie Quote of the Day – Johnny Guitar, 1954 (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Johnny: There’s nothing like a good smoke and a cup of coffee. You know, some men got the craving for gold and silver, others need lots of land with herds of cattle, and there’s those that got their weakness for whiskey and for women. When you boil it all down, what does a man really need? Just a smoke and cup of coffee.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Combo, 1955 (dir. Joseph H. Lewis)
Alicia Brown: I’d rather be insane and alive, than sane. . .and dead.
Movie Quote of the Day – Detective Story, 1951 (dir. William Wyler)
Shoplifter: You married?
Susan Carmichael: *shakes head no*
Shoplifter: Me neither. Everybody tells ya, “Why don’t you get married? You should be married.” My mother, my father, my sister, my aunt. “Get married.” As if I didn’t want to get married! Where do you find a man? Get me a man and I’ll get married. Anything. As long as it’s got pants. [beat] Married. It’s easy to talk.
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