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Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.
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It was a win, which is great and fantastic,
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It was a fantastic speech, ... It was a powerful statement of Democratic values.
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Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.
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I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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This is more than just a spiritual war. It?s a culture war.
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It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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The Castle Aaahhhgggg - our quest is at an end.
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No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
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We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
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'What? Ridden on a horse?'
'Yes'
'You're using coconuts!'
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'You've got two em...
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What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconut...
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Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out ...
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We are no longer the knights who say ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-b...
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This is a dead parrot!
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Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,
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Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!
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And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and ...
MONTY PYTHON
You don't like her??? She's beautiful and rich... and got huge...... tracks of land!
MONTY PYTHON

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?
MONTY PYTHON
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
MONTY PYTHON
The Castle Aaahhhgggg - our quest is at an end.
MONTY PYTHON
No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
MONTY PYTHON
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
MONTY PYTHON
We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
MONTY PYTHON
'What? Ridden on a horse?'
'Yes'
'You're using coconuts!'
'What?'
'You've got two em...
MONTY PYTHON
He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone ...
MONTY PYTHON
What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconut...
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Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out ...
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This is a dead parrot!
MONTY PYTHON
“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with you… your heads addled with novels and poems. You come home...
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Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,
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Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!
MONTY PYTHON
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
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NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and ...
MONTY PYTHON
You don't like her??? She's beautiful and rich... and got huge...... tracks of land!
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-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...
MONTY PYTHON
Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...
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Yes. Shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is Rogerthe Shrubber. I arrange, design, and...
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Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a t...
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Dinsdale, He was a nice boy...... He nailed my head to a coffee table.
MONTY PYTHON
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?
MONTY PYTHON
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
MONTY PYTHON
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general...
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I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that a...
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Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!
MONTY PYTHON
“Ah, Mr Anchovy! Do sit down.” “Thank you. Take the weight off the feet, eh? Lovely weather fo...
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“Hampstead wasn’t good enough for you was it? You had to go poncing off to Barnsley. You and you...
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Vikings? There ain’t no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. The town was burning, the villagers ...
MONTY PYTHON
There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not
MONTY PYTHON
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
MONTY PYTHON
Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestl...
MONTY PYTHON
Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by...
MONTY PYTHON
And now for something completely different.
MONTY PYTHON
I wanted to be... A LUMBERJACK!
MONTY PYTHON
First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, ...
MONTY PYTHON
He's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy.
MONTY PYTHON
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer u...
MONTY PYTHON
He must be a king.Why?He hasn't got shit all over him.
MONTY PYTHON
My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white
MONTY PYTHON
Tis but a scratch''A scratch?! Your arm's off!''No, it isn't.
MONTY PYTHON
Always look on the bright side of life.
MONTY PYTHON
“It was a fantastic success. Over 60 000 times more powerful than Britain’s great pre-war joke, an...
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If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, ...
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I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?
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That was a heck of a run.
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We are trying to avoid that. This chair will accommodate a broad range of employees.
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We shot ourselves in the foot with some opportunities more or less the whole game.
MONTY LEWIS
I can't believe that. Let us win that first game and then we'll talk.
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I will say, incidentally, he was wide open and might have scored. There wasn't anybody around him. T...
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Scott Oakes thinks he's solely responsible for our losing, and he's not.
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I have heard of juror disobedience.
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Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.
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I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?
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They feel like it was the first time they had a real vote on this issue.
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The union was aware of the changing business environment even prior to negotiations.
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