Cosmopolis Quotes
Eric Packer: There's a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, that would be interesting.
Eric Packer: Yeah, that would impact the world economy.
Michael Chin: The name alone, better than the dong or the kwacha.
Eric Packer: The name says everything.
Michael Chin: Yes. The rat.
Eric Packer: Yes, the rat close lower today against the euro.
Michael Chin: Yes, there's going concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.
Eric Packer: White rats, think about that.
Michael Chin: Yes, pregnant rats.
Eric Packer: Major sell-offs of pregnant Russian rats.
Michael Chin: Britain converts the rat.
Eric Packer: Joins trend to universal currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, US is establishing the rat standard.
Eric Packer: Is every US dollar redeemable for rat?
Michael Chin: Dead rats!
Eric Packer: Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.
Michael Chin: Yes, that would be interesting.
Eric Packer: Yeah, that would impact the world economy.
Michael Chin: The name alone, better than the dong or the kwacha.
Eric Packer: The name says everything.
Michael Chin: Yes. The rat.
Eric Packer: Yes, the rat close lower today against the euro.
Michael Chin: Yes, there's going concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.
Eric Packer: White rats, think about that.
Michael Chin: Yes, pregnant rats.
Eric Packer: Major sell-offs of pregnant Russian rats.
Michael Chin: Britain converts the rat.
Eric Packer: Joins trend to universal currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, US is establishing the rat standard.
Eric Packer: Is every US dollar redeemable for rat?
Michael Chin: Dead rats!
Eric Packer: Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.
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Eric Packer: What's the code?
Torval: Nancy Babitch. [the gun unloads and Eric shoots him]
Torval: Nancy Babitch. [the gun unloads and Eric shoots him]
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Vija Kinsky: What is the flaw of human rationality?
Eric Packer: What?
Vija Kinsky: It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.
Eric Packer: What?
Vija Kinsky: It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.
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Eric Packer: Holes are interesting. There are books about holes.
Benno Levin: There are books about... shit.
Benno Levin: There are books about... shit.
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Eric Packer: The phenomenon of reputation is a delicate thing. A person raises on a word and falls on a syllable.
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Elise Shifrin: Where is your office? What do you do exactly? You know things, I think this is what you do. I think you acquire information and turn it into something awful.
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Eric Packer: For someone your age and your gifts, there's only one thing in the world worth pursuing both professionally and intellectually.
Michael Chin: What is it, Michael?
Eric Packer: The interaction between technology and capital, the inseparability.
Michael Chin: High school was the last true challenge.
Michael Chin: What is it, Michael?
Eric Packer: The interaction between technology and capital, the inseparability.
Michael Chin: High school was the last true challenge.
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Elise Shifrin: I'll tell you what the problem is. I don't know how to be indifferent. I can't master this and it makes me susceptible to pain. In other words, it hurts.
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[first lines]Torval: Where?
Eric Packer: I wanna a haircut.
Torval: The president's in town.
Eric Packer: We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval: You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer: Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval: United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer: Show me my car.
Eric Packer: I wanna a haircut.
Torval: The president's in town.
Eric Packer: We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval: You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer: Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval: United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer: Show me my car.
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Vija Kinsky: People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units. A box, a screen, a keyboard, are melting into the texture of everyday life. Is this not true?
Eric Packer: Even the word computer.
Vija Kinsky: Even the word computer sounds backward and dumb.
Eric Packer: Even the word computer.
Vija Kinsky: Even the word computer sounds backward and dumb.
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Benno Levin: You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cross harmonies between nature and data. You taught me this. You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise. But you forgot something along the way.
Eric Packer: What?
Benno Levin: The importance of the lopsided. The thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance - beautiful balance, equals parts, equal sides, I know this. I know you.
Eric Packer: What?
Benno Levin: The importance of the lopsided. The thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance - beautiful balance, equals parts, equal sides, I know this. I know you.
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Eric Packer: [Kendra is holding a taser gun]Stun me. I mean it. I want you to do it Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the switch. Aim and fire. I want all the voltage the weapon holds. Now.
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Andre Petrescu: [boasting about how many pies he has thrown at famous people]I quiched the Sultan of Brunei, in his bath!
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Didi Fancher: I read about it of course, in the papers. Or did I see it on TV?
Eric Packer: What?
Didi Fancher: What? The wedding! What! Strange you didn't tell me.
Eric Packer: It's not so strange.
Didi Fancher: Not so strange... Two great fortunes, like one of those great arranged marriages.
Eric Packer: Except I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.
Eric Packer: What?
Didi Fancher: What? The wedding! What! Strange you didn't tell me.
Eric Packer: It's not so strange.
Didi Fancher: Not so strange... Two great fortunes, like one of those great arranged marriages.
Eric Packer: Except I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.
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Elise Shifrin: Where were you going?
Eric Packer: To get a haircut.
Elise Shifrin: Do you need a haircut?
Eric Packer: I need anything you can give me.
Eric Packer: To get a haircut.
Elise Shifrin: Do you need a haircut?
Eric Packer: I need anything you can give me.
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