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Old 12-02-10 | 08:45 AM
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Things You Learned From "THE GODFATHER"

01: blood is a big expense
02: Carlo has to answer for Santino

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Old 12-02-10 | 08:52 AM
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03 A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

04 Jack Dempsey's restaurant has the best veal in the city.
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04 Jack Dempsey's restaurant has the best veal in the city.
you mean Louis Restaurant.
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05: Never stick orange peels in your mouth. They contain a poison that will kill you.
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Scaring your grandson in your retirement is fun.
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06: Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino.
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07: Always leave the gun but take the cannoli
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08: Let's not turn this forum into IMDB.
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09: Woltz is no bandleader.
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08: Let's not turn this forum into IMDB.
I have to pull out my Godfather DVD again - I don't remember who said that. Shame on me!
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10. Italian girls are stacked, WASP girls aren't.
Old 12-02-10 | 09:37 AM
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11. If you got a godson who needs to be told to act like a man, slap 'em around. Slap 'em hard. My godsons are eighteen and one-year-old. Think it's time for a-slappin'.
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There is no difference between gangsters, law enforcement officials & politicians.
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12: Toll booths are a creative way of getting every angle to kill someone
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Italian cars are highly flammable.
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You won't be hearin' from Paulie no more.
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If a man's son gets struck by lightning, it is your fault that he died.
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Don Corleone is a superstitious man
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13: swimming with fishes is a bad thing
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Luca Brasi hopes Connie's first child is a masculine one.
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Luca Brasi ignores people's handshakes in lieu of lighting a cigarette and getting garrotted.
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15: I didn't know that it was a documentry
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16: two sequels is a bad idea
17: enjoy critical praise while it lasts, it won't be long before you're directing Jack.
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18: Nobody talks to a man like Moe Greene like that!
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19: you can neatly put a decapitated horse head in a man's bed without waking him.


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