Memorable Quotes from Nehemiah Persoff
3 quotesThe Nature of Genetic Differences
Vincent Benedict
This must, uh, be where you made the milkshake.
[points to a device in the lab]
Mitchell Traven
We weren't making milkshakes. We were making the most fully developed human the world has ever seen.
Vincent Benedict
But instead of just one perfect kid, Mom had the two of us. Way to go, Mom.
[smiling]
Mitchell Traven
Wrong. The embryo did split in two, but it didn't split equally. All the purity and strength went into Julius. All the crap that was left over went into what you see in the mirror every morning.
Vincent Benedict
Wow, wow, wow, you're telling me that I'm the crap?
Julius Benedict
This is not true, Vincent.
Vincent Benedict
Wait a minute, Julius. I wanna hear this. You're telling me that I am the left over crap? That I'm no good?
[to Traven]
Julius Benedict
He's wrong.
Mitchell Traven
Look at him.
[points at Vincent]
Vincent Benedict
Are you saying that... I'm a side effect?
Mitchell Traven
You haven't got the brainpower to understand this, and I don't have the time. Show's over.
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Seeking the Truth About Their Mother
Julius Benedict
Hey, "dick-head"! Tell us where our mother is.
[seizes Traven]
Mitchell Traven
Ah... Whispering Pines. It's an artist's colony 200 miles north of Santa Fe.
Julius Benedict
If you're lying to me... I'll be back.
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Conflict of Beliefs and Prophecies
Rabbi
That is blasphemy.
Jesus
Didn't they tell you? I am the saint of blasphemy. Don't make any mistakes, I didn't come here to bring peace, I came to bring a sword!
Rabbi
Talking like that will get you killed.
Jesus
Me, killed? Listen to me. This temple will be torn down in three days, torn down to the ground!
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