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Kathy Morningside: You know, you think you saved something tonight, but all you did was to destroy the dream of young women all over this country.
Gracie Hart: What? You think that their dream is to get blown up?

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Cheryl "Rhode Island": Once I stole a pair of red underwear from the department store. My mom wouldn't buy them for me - she said they were Satan's panties!

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Frank Tobin: You're a genius.
Kathy Morningside: No, Frank, I'm just pissed off.

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Gracie Hart: Enjoy running the Miss San Antonio Women's Correctional Facility Pageant, huh, huh?
[chuckles to herself, then turns to Matthews]
Gracie Hart: Get it, the Women's Correctional Facility Pageant...?

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Eric Matthews: We recently discovered some information about the winner from New Jersey.
Gracie Hart: And her performance in a little film called "Arma-get-it-on."
Stan Fields: Was that her?

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Gracie Hart: Ok, with all due respect here, why did Miss Morningside suggest you?
Victor Melling: Because I am the best... they had their Southern belles, their Midwestern farmers' daughters, spunky western cowgirls, and I have... dirty Harriet!

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Gracie Hart: Look, she's gonna cry again.
[imitating winner]
Gracie Hart: "Oh, if I only had a brain."

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[after getting a pint of Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream]
Gracie Hart: I'm going to get chip-faced.

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Eric Matthews: Is this you not arguing? 'Cause you suck at it.

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Eric Matthews: Why don't just you shut up?
Gracie Hart: Why? You're shutting up enough for both of us.

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Victor Melling: I knew I'd never get you here, unless you had the chance to shoot someone.

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Gracie Hart: [to Victor] You know, you're gonna get yours, Henry Higgins.

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Gracie Hart: You ate pizza, you stole panties! You're a wild woman!

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Cheryl "Rhode Island": My parents don't like anything ostentatious. And they really don't like fire.

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Gracie Hart: Sir, that is one really really purple Russian, sir!

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Victor Melling: There are no words.

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[a dentist is cleaning Grace's teeth, and a barber is untangling her hair]
Gracie Hart: Can't I get some Novocain?
Dentist: It's only a cleaning.
Gracie Hart: No, I'm talking about Sweeney Todd back here.

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[at the pageant breakfast]
Stan Fields: As you know, I'll be retiring this year.
[everyone moans in sympathy]
Mary Jo Wright, Miss Texas: Oh, he's not retiring. I spoke to him this morning, the poor man blurted out the whole thing. They're firing him. Going for someone newer and younger. I hope it's Ricky Martin.

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Miss Hawaii: Oh I know and it's an honor to have made it this far, I mean especially when you come from such a small state,
Cheryl "Rhode Island": Oh that's so true. Us Rhode Islanders...
Miss Hawaii: Umm I wasn't finished. Did it sound like I was finished?
Cheryl "Rhode Island": I'm sorry. I,

Karen "New York": Ay Dios, what are you apologizing to her for? She's obviously been drinking too much Coppertone.

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Cheryl "Rhode Island": I was like a female Rain Man!