Pray to the North Star. Ten minutes every night. Long line of star-worshippers. It keeps the rheumatism away.

— Davy Crockett (John Wayne)

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9 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:35:09.974 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Don't tell my Tennesseans that. They think we came south to hunt and get drunk.

- They seem to have accomplished that.

- Good evening, my almost-vanishing lady.

- This is incredible! I have arranged for this carriage today...

- I would be heartbroken if you left Bexar just now. And even more heartbroken if you left with my team of horses, which would bring a pretty penny in these times with two factions buying anything on four legs.

- Do you have business here?

- Promised Mother.

- Your mother?

- Pray to the North Star. Ten minutes every night. Long line of star-worshippers. It keeps the rheumatism away.

- It seems to me you're looking for trouble.

- It do?

- Let's go upstairs. Unless you prefer discussing your business in front of every drunken loafer in Bexar.

- I suppose that overdressed ignoramus is one of the riffraff here to resist Santa Anna. They'll find graves and nothing else. Santa Anna will sweep across...

- Overdressed? I paid good money for these clothes.

- Why?

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