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American Buffalo (1996) More at IMDb Pro »

Don: Action talks, bullshit walks!

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Teach: If I had kept everything my old man threw out, I'd be a wealthy man today.

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Teach: All I'm saying is don't confuse business with pleasure.

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Teach: Loyalty is fine, but this is business.

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Teach: The world is lies. There is no friendship.

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Teach: We live like the cavemen.

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Teach: I go out there everyday. There is nothing out there.

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Teach: We're talking about money for Christ's sake, we're talking about cards. Friendship is friendship and a wonderful thing and I'm all for it. I never said different, and you know me on this thing, but let's just keep it separate, OK? Let's keep the two apart and we can deal with each other like some human beings.

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Teach: Only, and I am telling you this, Don. Only, and I am not, i don't think, casting anything on anyone: from the mouth of the Southern bulldyke asshole ingrate of a vicious nowhere cunt can this trash come.

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Teach: Friendship is friendship, a wonderful thing, and I'm all for it. You know me on this point! OK?

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Bob 'Bobby': I found a nickel. I like it cause the art of it
Teach: Unh-huh.
Bob 'Bobby': Cause it looks like somethin'.

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Don: [to Bobby] Get Teach an English muffin.
Teach: I don't want an English muffin.
Don: Get him and English muffin and make sure they give you the jelly.

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Don: [to Bobby] Everything that I or Fletcher know we picked up on the street. That's all business is - common sense, experience, and talent.

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Don: [pontificating as to a pupil] ... there's business and there's friendship, Bobby. Watcha gotta do is keep clear of who your friends are and who treated you like what or else because the rest is garbage, Bobby. I'll tell you somethin'.
Bob 'Bobby': OK.
Don: Things are not always what they seem to be.
Bob 'Bobby': [Knowing laugh] I know that, Don.
Don: Because there are people on this street - they want this, they want that. Do anything to get it. You don't have friends this life.

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