New Amsterdam Quotes

Dr. Sara Dillane: Your bloodwork was curious. It had anomalies.
John Amsterdam: Anomalies.
Dr. Sara Dillane: Toxic level of lead. Native American genetic markers.
John Amsterdam: A great, great, great, great grandmother was part Lanpae.
Dr. Sara Dillane: Lanapae.
John Amsterdam: The original inhabitants of Manhattan.
Dr. Sara Dillane: Yeah, the ones who sold it to the Dutch?
John Amsterdam: Old wives tale. Trust me. Never happened.

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John Amsterdam: Favorite part of the job. "Sorry for your loss. Got an alibi?"

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John Amsterdam: [walks into Omar's very crowded bar] This is what they mean by "The City That Never Sleeps."
Omar: Which is why it looks like hell in the morning. You saw her. I can tell.
John Amsterdam: She's going to run more tests.
Omar: Wait till she gets the results. How did you explain the dying, not dying thing?
John Amsterdam: I didn't.
Omar: I see.
John Amsterdam: I want her to get to know me first.
Omar: Oh what a tangled web we weave.
John Amsterdam: Spare me. I hate getting parental advice from my children. [Looks at the band]
John Amsterdam: Do they take requests?
Omar: When they're written on a $20 bill.
John Amsterdam: Well ask them to play "How Long Has this Been Going On?"

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John Amsterdam: Ever ask yourself why a vampire has no reflection in a mirror?
Omar: Not this week.
John Amsterdam: Be too painful. To see himself year after year, century after century, unchanged while everything around him grows old. To search for love but to know it's always just out of your reach. Because to be human is to die. To die is what makes life worth living. It's God's joke.

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Omar: [reads what's on John's monitor] Uh oh. New York Times, 2003.
John Amsterdam: Yeah. A temporary glitch.
Omar: Doctor Sara Millay Dillane, daughter of Mary Dillane and Franklin Dillane was married Friday to Robert Camp. That don't sound temporary to me.
John Amsterdam: How many times have you been married?
Omar: Enough to know it's supposed to be forever. I'm just saying, maybe she aint the girl of your dreams.
John Amsterdam: Hm. It's my dream. Okay?

Movie: New Amsterdam