Glory (1989)
Jihmi Kennedy: Pvt. Jupiter Sharts
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Quotes
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John Rawlins : Where about you from?
Trip : I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
Sharts : What ya doin' since then?
Trip : I run for President.
[laughter]
Trip : I didn't win though.
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Jupiter Sharts : [praying aloud] Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.
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Sgt. Mulcahy : Company, halt!
[to Sharts]
Sgt. Mulcahy : For God's sake, man! Do you not know your right from your left?
Sharts : N-n-no, sah.
Sgt. Mulcahy : How many here do not know right from left?
[Half a dozen hands are raised]
Sgt. Mulcahy : [mutters] Jesus have pity.
[smacks Sharts in the chest]
Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *front*!
[slaps his back]
Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *rear*!
[stomps on his right foot]
Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *right*!
[goes to stomp on his left foot]
Sgt. Mulcahy : And this...!
[Sharts lifts his foot out of the way]
Sgt. Mulcahy : Now you're learnin', boy-o!
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Jupiter Sharts : [seeing that Thomas is reading] Good book, brother?
Cpl. Thomas Searles : Yes it is, actually. The name's Searles, Thomas Searles.
Jupiter Sharts : Jupiter Sharts, sir. What it 'bout, that book?
Cpl. Thomas Searles : It's a collection of essays, actually... Fourier, Emerson... all the transcendentalists.
Jupiter Sharts : [nods smiling] It got pictures?