Quotes
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Nick Chase : I have an obsession... I-I think. I mean, I WAS a marine, right? And everything we did was obsessed.
Kate Adler : Well, do you have one in particular, Nick?
Nick Chase : Yeah, whenever I walk, I have to lead off with my left foot, and if, by mistake, I go with my right, I gotta skip twice and get back into rhythm.
Kate Adler : Well, that's not that serious.
Nick Chase : [confidentially] The guys look at me funny when I skip.
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Nick Chase : I like goodbyes. I try to say 'em ten or eleven times on MY dates.
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Nick Chase : [at the science fair] What's this button for?
Gary : You blow up the world with it.
Nick Chase : And if I push THIS button?
Gary : You blow up the world in stages.
Nick Chase : You have anything for peace?
Gary : Um, you obviously don't understand military strategy.
Nick Chase : Excuse me? I was a marine for twenty years.
Gary : Oh. A-a general or a colonel?
Nick Chase : A sergeant.
Gary : I'm a lieutenant in the ROTC. Drop and give me ten!
Nick Chase : I'll be back with the rest of the judges in a minute.
Gary : [nervously] Oh... I was just kiddin'.
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Nick Chase : [reading exhibit sign] Psychokinetics. What's that, like "Beam me up, Scotty?"
Margaret : Please, don't trivialize this. This is a serious experiment in thought transference. Here, put on the cerebro-intensifier.
Nick Chase : You mean the helmet.
Margaret : Yeah. Now concentrate and focus your thoughts towards me.
Nick Chase : This is...
Margaret : ...RIDICULOUS!
Nick Chase : That's...
Margaret : ...FANTASTIC!
Nick Chase : Well, I'm...
Margaret : ...CONVINCED!
Nick Chase : Okay, you can stop...
Margaret : ...NOW!
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Colonel Humner : Nick, if you'd a' come here just a couple o' weeks later, you'd have seen something really spectacular.
Nick Chase : What, you're gonna try some Grecian formula.
Colonel Humner : [laughs] Nick, Nick, look at this. It's taken me five years to get the paperwork together, but I'm finally going to get it.
Nick Chase : It?
Colonel Humner : My bathroom.
Nick Chase : You must be awfully uncomfortable.
