Cosmopolis Quotes
Eric Packer: Right! Why am I here?
Benno Levin: You have to tell me. Some kind of unexpected failure. Shocked with self esteem.
Benno Levin: You have to tell me. Some kind of unexpected failure. Shocked with self esteem.
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Elise Shifrin: I like taxis. I was never good at geography, and I learn things by asking the drivers where they come from.
Eric Packer: They come from horror and despair.
Elise Shifrin: Yes, exactly. One learns about the countries where unrest is occurring by riding the taxis here.
Eric Packer: They come from horror and despair.
Elise Shifrin: Yes, exactly. One learns about the countries where unrest is occurring by riding the taxis here.
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Eric Packer: You eat breakfast yet?
Elise Shifrin: No.
Eric Packer: Good, I'm hungry for something thick and chewy.
Elise Shifrin: No.
Eric Packer: Good, I'm hungry for something thick and chewy.
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Eric Packer: [while undergoing a prostate exam]Oh, that whole sad business of Judeo-Christian jogging. You were not born to run. Look at you, I know what you are. You're slouch-bodied, smelly and wet. A woman who was born to sit strapped in a chair, while a man tells her how much she excites him.
Jane Melman: [breathlessly]How come we've never spent this kind of time together?
Dr. Ingram: [finishing up]Your prostate is asymmetrical.
Jane Melman: [breathlessly]How come we've never spent this kind of time together?
Dr. Ingram: [finishing up]Your prostate is asymmetrical.
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Eric Packer: The city eats and sleep noise. It makes noise out of every century. It makes the same noise it made in the 17th century, along with all the other noises that have evolved since then. But I don't mind the noise - the noise energizes me. The important thing is that it's there.
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Eric Packer: You smoke since when?
Elise Shifrin: I took it up when I was 15. It's one of those things a girl picks up - tells her she's more than a skinny body that no one looks at. There's a certain drama in her life.
Eric Packer: She notices herself, then other people notice her, and she marries one of them, and they go to dinner.
Elise Shifrin: I took it up when I was 15. It's one of those things a girl picks up - tells her she's more than a skinny body that no one looks at. There's a certain drama in her life.
Eric Packer: She notices herself, then other people notice her, and she marries one of them, and they go to dinner.
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Eric Packer: How old are you? I'm interested.
Benno Levin: Do you think people like me can't happen?
Eric Packer: How old?
Benno Levin: We happen... 41.
Eric Packer: A prime number.
Benno Levin: But not an interesting one.
Benno Levin: Do you think people like me can't happen?
Eric Packer: How old?
Benno Levin: We happen... 41.
Eric Packer: A prime number.
Benno Levin: But not an interesting one.
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Benno Levin: You want me to be a helpless robot soldier, and all I could be was helpless.
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Vija Kinsky: This is also the hallmark of capitalist thought: enforced destruction. All industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed, and old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, remake the future.
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Elise Shifrin: You were just in Singapore.
Eric Packer: What makes you say that?
Elise Shifrin: I can smell it. Every country in the world has its own distinct odor and yours is of Singapore.
Eric Packer: Then would you kindly relate to me just what Singapore is supposed to smell like?
Elise Shifrin: Fish mostly, and sickeningly sweet air-freshener.
Eric Packer: I was at a fish-market, the one located on 48th street, sandwiched between the used tissue dealership and the asbestos teddy-bear factory.
Elise Shifrin: No, you weren't; you smell specifically of Singaporean fish. I know singaporean fish when I smell them... Dinosaurs.
Eric Packer: They have blueberry pie in Singapore. A uniquely American dish. There's cream in blueberry pie, but it's more often referred to as slurry. Slurry is what cream is called when it's being harbored in pie-crust. I generally prefer to simply refer to it as pie-filling as I find words like slurry to be most unappetizing.
Elise Shifrin: I need a haircut.
Eric Packer: Rats have been used as currency ever since the extinction of the hamster. This is the only explanation for how Jerry Lewis became so well respected in France.
Elise Shifrin: France smells of shower currents.
Eric Packer: I didn't ask you what France smelled like.
Elise Shifrin: Whether or not asked the question is irrelevant as I have already informed you of the answer. There is no way to reverse this. Your best hope for survival is to eliminate the future for only when the future has been eradicated we can ever hope to reincarnate the past as a means of elongating the present. Then, and only then can mankind have the ideal place in which to store his pet rock collection.
Eric Packer: I used to love brown rice.
Elise Shifrin: You have just reminded me; I've yet to start writing the speech I promised
Eric Packer: What makes you say that?
Elise Shifrin: I can smell it. Every country in the world has its own distinct odor and yours is of Singapore.
Eric Packer: Then would you kindly relate to me just what Singapore is supposed to smell like?
Elise Shifrin: Fish mostly, and sickeningly sweet air-freshener.
Eric Packer: I was at a fish-market, the one located on 48th street, sandwiched between the used tissue dealership and the asbestos teddy-bear factory.
Elise Shifrin: No, you weren't; you smell specifically of Singaporean fish. I know singaporean fish when I smell them... Dinosaurs.
Eric Packer: They have blueberry pie in Singapore. A uniquely American dish. There's cream in blueberry pie, but it's more often referred to as slurry. Slurry is what cream is called when it's being harbored in pie-crust. I generally prefer to simply refer to it as pie-filling as I find words like slurry to be most unappetizing.
Elise Shifrin: I need a haircut.
Eric Packer: Rats have been used as currency ever since the extinction of the hamster. This is the only explanation for how Jerry Lewis became so well respected in France.
Elise Shifrin: France smells of shower currents.
Eric Packer: I didn't ask you what France smelled like.
Elise Shifrin: Whether or not asked the question is irrelevant as I have already informed you of the answer. There is no way to reverse this. Your best hope for survival is to eliminate the future for only when the future has been eradicated we can ever hope to reincarnate the past as a means of elongating the present. Then, and only then can mankind have the ideal place in which to store his pet rock collection.
Eric Packer: I used to love brown rice.
Elise Shifrin: You have just reminded me; I've yet to start writing the speech I promised
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