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Showing 42 quotes from 1972

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 8.6

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.

Michael Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 7.5

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

I believe in America.

Amerigo Bonasera

The Godfather · 1972

★ 7.0

Song · Pop music

It's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on.

Perfect Day · 1972

★ 6.1

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Invisible Cities · 1972

★ 6.0

I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

1972

★ 6.0

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

★ 5.5

Historical literature

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 · 1972

★ 5.3

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

1972

★ 5.2

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Eisentadt v. Baird · 1972

★ 5.1

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

1972

★ 4.3

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 4.0

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 3.9

Interview · Biography

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

Henry Kissinger

1972

★ 3.7

Film · Survival (film) · Thriller (film) · Thriller · Survival

Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game—survive.

Lewis (Deliverance)

Deliverance · 1972

★ 3.7

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never.

Last Tango in Paris · 1972

★ 3.7

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

The Godfather · 1972

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

1972

★ 3.6

Film · Survival (film) · Thriller (film) · Thriller · Survival

Goddamn, you play a mean banjo!

Deliverance · 1972

★ 3.6

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

1972

★ 3.5

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