Quotes from Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You
Animal Shelter Worker (to Austin and Mickey, who are bringing a computer to Josephine): You brought a computer for the monkey? Don't let the dogs see it. They'll all want one.
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[After a young graduate student begs Austin to look at her research.] Mickey: A science groupie? I have seen everything. Austin: She's obviously done a lot of work on this. We have to encourage young scientists, Mickey. Give them a chance to tap our brains. Mickey: I think she might want to tap more than your brain Austin.
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Mickey (after a female graduate student and a female ape both seem interested in Austin): It's tough to work for a sex symbol.
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Police Detective (after Austin makes a second, seemingly impossible deduction): How do you know that? Do I sound like a broken record? Mickey: You sound like me.
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Mickey: How can a man who knows so much about the universe know so little about people? Austin: The universe is nothing but a dynamic system encompassing everything in the space/time continuum. It's easier to understand than people... and just as impossible to change.
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Louise (a graduate student who is interested in Austin):
Does your secretary have a background in science, Austin?
[Austin shakes his head "no".] Louise: Austin, don't you think you need someone with research experience in that position? Austin: Mickey's irreplaceable. She does things for me I can't even begin to describe.
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Mickey: In that hard spot you call your heart, Austin James, there is a marshmallow the size of a Ritz.
