Trading Places Quotes

Billy Ray: Merry New Year!
Beeks: That's happy. In this country we say Happy New Year.
Billy Ray: Oh, ho, ho, thank you for correcting my English which stinks!

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Billy Ray Valentine: [watches cops subduing an unruly suspect] May I suggest using your night stick officer?

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Duke & Duke receptionist: Yes Mr. Valentine, they're waiting for you in the last office down the hall.

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Even Bigger Black Guy: It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving.

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[after breaking a vase]
Billy Ray Valentine: Hey, sorry about that.
Randolph Duke: It's perfectly all right William. It was your vase.
Billy Ray Valentine: That was a cheap vase, right? That was a fake? Right?
Randolph Duke: I believe we paid $35,000. But if I remember correctly, the insurance company valued it at $50,000. You see, Mortimer? William has already made us $15,000. [Coleman, Mortimer, Randolph, and Billy Ray start laughing]
Billy Ray Valentine: You want me to break something else?
Randolph Duke, Mortimer Duke, Coleman: NO!

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[approaching the New York Commodities Exchange]
Louis Winthorpe III: Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the absolute carnage you are about to witness. Super Bowl, World Series - they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?
Billy Ray Valentine: Yeah, we got to kill the mother****ers - we got to kill 'em!

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