O'Dell: God's honest truth, Homer. What are the chances... a bunch of kids from Coalwood... actually winning the national science fair? Homer: A million to one, O'Dell. O'Dell: That good? Well, why didn't you say so?
(7 votes)
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Quentin: What do you want to know about rockets? Homer: Everything.
(3 votes)
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Roy Lee: That thing had better fly, or you can kiss your chances of losing your virginity goodbye.
(4 votes)
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[imitating, incorrectly, Quentin's favorite saying] Roy Lee: Prodigenous!
(3 votes)
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Jim Hickam: [at football practice] Hey, Lenny; take it easy on my kid brother, but make it look good, all right? Jim Hickam: [Homer is tackled hard] I thought I told you to take it easy on him. Lenny: I *did* take it easy on him Homer: [playing against Lenny] I'm gonna run right over you, you son of a bitch! You hear me? [is tackled several times more] Coach Gainer: [helping Homer up] Well, Homer, you've sure got guts; but ya gotta know when to quit.
(2 votes)
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Homer: [to John] Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either, it's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you. Sure, Warner Von Braun is a great scientist… but he isn't my hero.
(2 votes)
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Homer: Why're the jocks the only ones who get to go to college? Roy Lee: They're also the only ones who get the girls.
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Roy Lee: Let them have outer space. We got rock 'n' roll.
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Homer: You know, it, uh, won't fly unless somebody pushes the button. It's yours, if you want it.
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Roy Lee: I don't know why they'd drop a bomb on this place, be a heck of a waste of a bomb.
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Roy Lee: I'll tell you what's unbelievable... captain of the football team being jealous of you.
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Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give these kids an education. Miss Riley: Mmm-hmm. Principal Turner: Not false hopes. Miss Riley: False hopes? Do you want me to sit quiet, let 'em breathe in coal dust the rest of their life? Principal Turner: Miss Riley, once in a while... a lucky one... will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines. Miss Riley: How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.
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John: [to Leon, about helping Homer] Don't you have some work to do?
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Homer: [jumps into Roy Lee's car to go to football tryouts] Let's go, Roy Lee! It's almost nine. Roy Lee: You sure are in a hurry to get yourself killed, huh, kid? O'Dell: There are easier ways to commit suicide, Homer. Homer: Would you just step on it, Roy Lee? Roy Lee: [frustrated with his car] I *am* stepping on it.
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O'Dell: That's a good idea. Four unidentifiable high school students lost their lives early this morning when their toy rocket exploded.
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[Insisting John help his son] Elsie: If you don't, I'll leave you. I'll find work. I'll do whatever it takes to get away from here. I'll live in a tree to get away from you. Don't you think I won't. John: [Softly] Where would you go? Elsie: Myrtle Beach.
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Quentin: They watched us get arrested. We're practically ex-convicts. They'll never dance with us. O'Dell: Jesus, Quentin, you don't know anything about women.
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O'Dell: [after hearing train whistle coming towards wrecked track] I-It's abandoned. Uh, look at the rust. Caretta number two shut down in '51. [whistle blows again] O'Dell: Shit, shit!
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[a mine worker, formerly one of the Tuskegee Airmen, almost gets hit when he watches Homer launch a rocket] Leon Bolden: Homer, I flew with the Red Tails in World War II. And seein' that rocket come at me... it almost took me back there.
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[about Homer going to college] Jim Hickam: Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.
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Homer: No. Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.
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Homer: Did you ever see Frankenstein and the wolf man?
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Elsie: Your father always has to be the big hero. I swear if he dies I won't shed a tear.
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Quentin: [shooting off their last rocket] Look at it go, Homer. This one's gunna go for miles.
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Homer: [to his dad] Sure Dr. Von Braun is a great scientist, but he isn't my hero.
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Roy Lee: Are you sure we need this nozzle thing? Quentin: Are you kidding?! The nozzle is the most important part - it directs the flow of the hot gases! Roy Lee: Hey, cool it, Quentin! Man, talkin' 'bout your 'hot gases'...
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Roy Lee: [after a rocket launch] Holy shit, it's headed for the mine. [beat, then runs]
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