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Quotes from the movie Apocalypse Now
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Charlie don't surf!
send an e card Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore


We use Wagner. My boys love it. It scares the hell outta' the slopes.
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Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Getcha a case of beer for that one.
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I will not hurt or harm you. Just give me back the board, Lance. It was a good board ñ and I like it. You know how hard it is to find a board you like.(
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You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like Ö victory.
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Someday this war's gonna end Ö
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Never get out of the boat!
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Never get out of the boat!
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Never get out of the boat!
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He's worse than crazy, he's evil!
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There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I'll tell ya.
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One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions ñ what are you going to land on ñ one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
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Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them."
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He likes you because you're still alive.
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I mean, what are they gonna say about him, when he's gone, huh? What are they gonna say? Are they gonna say "he was a kind man"? "He was a wise man"? "He had plans"; "He had wisdom"? Bullshit, man!
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The heads. You're looking at the heads. I, uh ñ sometimes he goes too far, you know ñ he's the first one to admit it!
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Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean, sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ñ I mean, I'm no, I can't ñ I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas ñ I mean ñ
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There are two of you. One that kills and one that loves.
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Then you are like us; your home is here.
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The war will still be here tomorrow.
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My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't. But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot.
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And now here's another blast from the past coming out to Big Cind, all alone in the men's room out there with the First Battalion Thirty-fifth Infantry, and dedicated by the fire team at An Khe to their groupie CO Fred the Head: The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.
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You are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.
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This sho' nuff a bizarre sight in the middle-a all this shit!
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Well, you see Willard... In this war, things get confused out there, power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity. Out there with these natives it must be a temptation to be god. Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have. Walter Kurtz has reached his. And very obviously, he has gone insane.
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