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Quotes
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William Halsey : Great Father, Sitting Bull has waited to ask you a very simple thing for his people.
President Grover Cleveland : Mr. Halsey, I remind you that in government, nothing is simple.
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William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Tell me what you got on your mind.
William Halsey : [Speaking for Sitting Bull] Sitting Bull has said that he is here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by their will he is chief. His heart is red and sweet. Whatever passes near tries to lick him with its tongue, and the bears taste the honey, and the green leaves lick the sky. If the Great Spirit has chosen anyone to be leader of their land, it is Sitting Bull.
William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Halsey, you tell Sitting Bull that Buffalo Bill says his leaves can turn whichever way he wants as long as he knows which way the wind is blowing.
[Sits down. To his advisors]
William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : I give him back the same kind of murky logic that he gave us. Whatya think, um?
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William Halsey : Sitting Bull says that history is nothing more than disrespect for the dead.
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William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Where were ya?
William Halsey : It's the first of the moon.
Nate Salisbury : That's not what Buffalo Bill asked ya! Now where in the hell have you been?
William Halsey : During the first day of the first moon, Sitting Bull visits the sun in the mountains while his squaws move the teepees to the moon path.
Nate Salisbury : Damn it, Halsey! Stop sunning and mooning us! Now where the hell have you been?
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Nate Salisbury : Did Burke promise you that?
William Halsey : Sitting Bull no longer accepts promises from white men. His dreams told him that this is the place he would meet the Great Father.
Nate Salisbury : Sitting Bull is here because he dreamed he'd meet President Cleveland?
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William Halsey : He will own his own photographs.
William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Hell he will! I got all photographic rights and historics!
William Halsey : Sitting Bull says a man may never let go of his face. Therefore, he will own his own photographs.
William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : My ass!
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William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : [waking up] What the hell are you doin' here?
William Halsey : Sitting Bull has come to tell you what he will do in your show.
William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody : Show? God, the sun ain't hardly up yet!
William Halsey : Sitting Bull's thoughts do not have a time schedule.
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William Halsey : My father has promised me this land, and, in protecting it, I have had a hard time. The rivers flow with the blood of my people. The wind blows the echoes of lies. The white man has stolen the truth.
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William Halsey : This simple request will satisfy Sitting Bull's people for the length of time, Great Father.
President Grover Cleveland : Let me point out that I'm "Great Father" for only four years at a time.
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William Halsey : This request is very simple.
Ed Goodman : Halsey, the President's tryin' to tell you that nothin' ain't simple. Don't you understand American?