Memorable Quotes from Slim Pickens
6 quotesVigilantes in Towns with Down-Home Sheriffs
Frank Stillwell
Anytime you got one of them down-home sheriffs, you always got a town full of vigilantes.
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Character expresses concern over horse losses.
Taggart
Horses? We cain't afford t'lose no horses, you dummy! Send over a couple'a niggers.
[on testing for quicksand]
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A Clash of Musical Expectations
Lyle
When you was slaves, you sang like birds. Come on! How about a good old nigger work song?
[Taunting the mainly-black railworkers]
Bart
]-style, with fellow railworkers providing backing vocals] I get no kick from champagne... Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all... so why then should it be true?... that I get a belt - outta you... Some get a kick from ]...
[Crooning, [[w:Sammy Davis, Jr.|Sammy Davis, Jr.; the bullying supervisors look immensely confused and insulted; [w:cocaine|coca-yeai-yeaiiiinnnneee]
Lyle
Hold it, hold it! What the hell is that shit?! I meant a song! A real song! Something like "Swing low, sweet chariot"...
[singing]
Lyle
Don't know that one, huh. Well how about "De Camptown Ladies"?
Bart
De Camptown Ladies?
Railworkers
De Camptown Ladies?
Lyle
Oh, you know! "De Camptown ladies sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah! Camptown Race Track five miles long, oh-de-do-da-dahy!
Taggart
What in the ] is a-goin on here? I hired you people to get some track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
[[w:ABC's Wide World of Sports|Wide World of Sports]
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Advice on Settling Down and Family Life
Cowboy
Ya know, if I's you kids what I'd do? I'd quit this runnin around the country. Ya know, git a little bit a money together n, hell, buy a place n settle down n raise a family. I've been married for 35 years, same old gal; man she's a tough ol hide. God dang, everything I am, I owe ta her.
Carter Doc McCoy
Say a, pull over over here would ya?
Cowboy
Okay, whatever you say. Now what?
[Pulls over]
Carter Doc McCoy
Let's get out a spell.
Carter Doc McCoy
How much money did you make last year?
Cowboy
Aw, reckon about five thousand.
Carter Doc McCoy
Suppose I give you ten thousand for that truck of yours?
Cowboy
You're serious?
Carter Doc McCoy
I am.
Cowboy
An'a I keep ma mouth shut, an I don't say nothin bout the truck, n I never seen either one a the two of ya.
Carter Doc McCoy
That's what I want.
Cowboy
How bout twenty?
Carol Ainsley McCoy
How bout thirty?
Cowboy
God damn, ma'am, you got a deal!
Carter Doc McCoy
Pay the man, honey.
Cowboy
Thank ya, ma'am.
Carter Doc McCoy
Now you're gonna have to walk on back to the border.
Cowboy
Oh that's alright. Don't worry bout me.
Carter Doc McCoy
Hope you find what you're lookin for.
Cowboy
Vaya con Dios. You too, maam. Take care, ya hear? God damn!
[Walks away; laughing and walking]
Carter Doc McCoy
Come on.
[to Carol; they drive off]
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Irony of Racial Appointments in the West
Taggart
Well, how do you like that! We take the trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West,and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff who's Blacker than any Indian! I AM DEPRESSED!!
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Hollywood's Presence Explained
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Where Hollywood?
Hollis P. Wood
Right here.
Col. Akiro Mitamura
What?
Hollis P. Wood
You're looking at him.
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Who?
Hollis P. Wood
Hollis Wood.
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Where?
Hollis P. Wood
I'm right here! Shoot, can't ya understand plain English?
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Hollywood?
Hollis P. Wood
Huh?
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Where?
Hollis P. Wood
Here!
Col. Akiro Mitamura
Look. Where Hollywood? North? South?
Hollis P. Wood
Oh! You want me to tell you where Hollywood is! Well, shoot, that's easy. Hollywood is... Oh, no, you don't. You thought you was gonna get me to show you where Hollywood was, didn't ya? Tried to sneak up on us, like ya did at Pearl Harbor! Bet you're gonna bomb John Wayne's house, ain't ya?
[suddenly, he realizes]
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