A Beautiful Mind Quotes
Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared?
Nash: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.
Nash: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.
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Nash: I find you very attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we go through a number of platonic activities before we
[brief pause]
Nash: have sex. I'm simply proceeding with those activities. But in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You're gonna slap me now.
[brief pause]
Nash: have sex. I'm simply proceeding with those activities. But in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. You're gonna slap me now.
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Charles: Nothing's ever for sure, John. That's the only sure thing I do know.
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Bender: Go With God!
Sol: Come back a man!
Bender: Fortune favors the brave!
Sol: Come back a man!
Bender: Fortune favors the brave!
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Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.
Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.
Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.
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Alicia: I was wondering Professor Nash, if I could take you to dinner?
[he hesitates]
Alicia: You do eat don't you?
[he hesitates]
Alicia: You do eat don't you?
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[showing Charles one of his window equations]
Nash: This is a group playing touch football. This is a flock of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse.
Charles: John, you watched a mugging. That's weird.
Nash: This is a group playing touch football. This is a flock of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse.
Charles: John, you watched a mugging. That's weird.
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Nash: You wanted to see if I was crazy and would screw everything up if I actually won.
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Charles: [offering Nash a flask of whiskey] Listen. If we can't break the ice, how 'bout we drown it?
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Nash: It looks like you won after all.
Hansen: No. They were wrong, John. No one wins.
Hansen: No. They were wrong, John. No one wins.
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Nash: I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.
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Dr. Rosen: Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?
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John Nash: And then, on the way home, Charles was there again. Sometimes I miss talking to him. Maybe Rosen is right. Maybe I have to think about going back to the hospital.
Alicia Nash: Maybe try again tomorrow.
Alicia Nash: Maybe try again tomorrow.
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MIT Student: Can we open up the window, Professor? It's hot in here.
John Nash: Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice.
John Nash: Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice.
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Nash: This class will be a waste of your - and what is infinitely worse - my time.
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Charles: Mathematics... mathematics is never going to lead you to higher truth and you know why? Because it's boring!
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[first lines]
Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.
Helinger: Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes... and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians... like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America's future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.
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Nash: In competitive behavior someone always loses.
Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high.
Nash: See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations...
Charles: When did you last eat?
Nash: ...currency exchange?
Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food.
Nash: You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?
Charles: Yes. But pizza - now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer.
[leaves]
Nash: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!
Charles: Well, my niece knows that, John, and she's about this high.
Nash: See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations...
Charles: When did you last eat?
Nash: ...currency exchange?
Charles: When did you last eat? You know, food.
Nash: You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?
Charles: Yes. But pizza - now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer.
[leaves]
Nash: [throws stuff down and follows] I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!
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Hansen: Cowards, all of you. Come on. Whoever wins, Sol does his laundry for the semester.
Sol: Does that seem unfair to anybody?
Bender: No, not at all.
Sol: Does that seem unfair to anybody?
Bender: No, not at all.
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Charles: That Isaac Newton fellow was right.
Nash: He was on to something.
Charles: Clever boy.
Nash: He was on to something.
Charles: Clever boy.
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Charles: So what's your story? You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover?
Nash: Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.
Nash: Despite my privileged upbringing, I'm actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.
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