Jeff Goldblum: Ian Malcolm
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
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Roland Tembo : Rex just fed, so he won't be hunting for a while.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Just fed? I assume you're talking about Eddie? You might show a little more respect, the man saved our lives by giving his.
Roland Tembo : Then his troubles are over. My point is, predators don't hunt when they're not hungry.
Nick Van Owen : No, only humans do.
Roland Tembo : Oh, you're breaking our hearts! Saddle up, let's get this moveable feast under way!
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John Hammond : Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : No, you're making all new ones.
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[Eddie finds Ian, Sarah, and Nick trapped in a trailer hanging over a cliff]
Eddie Carr : What do you need?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Rope!
Eddie Carr : Rope! What, anything else?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Yeah, three double cheeseburgers with everything!
Nick Van Owen : No onions on mine!
Sarah Harding : And an apple turnover!
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[after re-capturing the baby T-Rex in San Diego]
Sarah Harding : How do we find the adult?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Just follow the screams.
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Sarah Harding : You know, I have made a career out of waiting for you.
Kelly Malcolm : You know, Sarah does have a pretty good p...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : It's so important to your future that you not finish that sentence.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Mommy's very angry.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Did you find him?
Roland Tembo : Just the parts they didn't like.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : It's fine if you wanna put your name on something but STOP putting it on other people's headstones.
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[to Ludlow as the T-Rex terrorizes San Diego]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Now you're John Hammond.
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[searching the island for Sarah]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Sarah! Sarah!
Nick Van Owen : Sarah Harding!
Dr. Ian Malcolm : How many Sarahs you think are on this island? Sarah!
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Why don't people listen to me? I use plain and simple English, I don't have any accent that I'm aware of...
Sarah Harding : Oh, shut up.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : What are you talking about? Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island. And you think that, what? A couple dozen Marlboro men were going to make a difference here?
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Ian Malcolm : Hey, when the adult sees us once again with his baby, uh, isn't he gonna be like, "You"? You know, there may be some, uh, angry recognition.
Sarah Harding : Who knows? He may be just happy to see us.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : [to Hammond] So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just 4 years. That's something.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : When you try to sound like Hammond, it just comes off like a hustle. I mean, it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, uh, hey, I'm sure your kids are gonna be sharp as tacks.
Peter Ludlow : Hammond's reach exceeded his grasp. Mine does not.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas. And, uh, I'm gonna be there when you learn that.
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Eddie Carr : It's a high hide. A high hide. You know, you go up and hide, high. It goes up to where the trees are and keeps the researchers out of harm's way.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Actually, it would put them at very convenient biting height.
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Sarah Harding : I love you. I just don't - need you right now.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I'll tell you what you *need*, a good anti-psychotic!
Sarah Harding : I'll be back in five or six days.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : No, you'll be back in five or six *pieces*.
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[When Sara's camera runs out of film and the baby dinosaur roars]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, they get very angry when you run out of film.
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Sarah Harding : What's everybody looking at?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : [spots the T-Rex transfer ship speeding towards the harbor]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : We should've stayed in the damn car.
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Kelly Malcolm : She doesn't even have Sega. She's such a troglodyte.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Cruel, but good word use.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Eddie, is there any reason to think that the radio in the trailer might work?
Eddie Carr : If you feel at all qualified, try turning the switch to "on."
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Sarah Harding : Hey, don't light that! Dinosaurs pick up scents from miles away. We're here to observe and document, not interact.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Ah, which, by the way, is a scientific impossibility. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Whatever you study, you also change.
Sarah Harding : Well, you know, I'll risk it. I'm sick of scratching around in rock and bone and making assumptions and deductions about the nurturing habits of animals that have been dead for 65 million years. I'm sick of it, man. Then you show up and fill my head with stories for four years. So, of course I'm going to come down here. What do you expect?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Stories of mutilation and death. Weren't you paying attention?
Sarah Harding : Oh, please! Don't treat me like I'm a grad student. I've worked around predators since I was 20 years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas - you.
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Sarah Harding : [about the baby T-Rex] He's too drugged.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : He's never gonna know we have it if the thing doesn't make some kind of sound.
Sarah Harding : Come on. Wake up. Come on. Come on. Wake up.
[baby T-rex growls. Adult T-Rex sniffs the air then roars in their direction]
Sarah Harding : He knows.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : [to Kelly] Hey, you want some good parental advice? Don't listen to me.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : I'll be right back. I give you my word.
Kelly Malcolm : [pounds her fists on the railing] But you *never* keep your word!
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Sarah, when Hammond called you, uh, why didn't you say something to me?
Sarah Harding : Because I knew you would have stopped me from coming.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I would have tied you to the bed. Right.
Sarah Harding : I figured out how the animals survive without lysine.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I don't care!
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[after taking the baby T-Rex and putting it in the car]
InGen Guard : Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I'm taking the kid. If you really want to stop us, shoot us.
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Kelly Malcolm : Dad, are you mad?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : No, I'm not mad - I'm furious!
[Looks around the messy trailer]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : What is this? This looks like your room.
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[about the poison on the darts in their guns]
Eddie Carr : The most powerful neurotoxin in the world. It works faster than the nerve conduction velocity, which means the animal's down before it actually feels the - P! - prick of the dart.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Is there an antidote?
Eddie Carr : What, like if you shot yourself in the foot? Don't do that, you would be dead before you even knew you had an accident.
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Sarah Harding : [referring to the T-Rexes] This isn't hunting, Ian, it's searching. They're looking for their infant.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Let's not disappoint them.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : What's your background? Wildlife photography?
Nick Van Owen : Yeah. Wildlife, combat... you name it. When I was with Nightline, I was in Rwanda, Chechnya, all over Bosnia. Do some volunteer work for Greenpeace once in a while.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Greenpeace? What drew you there?
Nick Van Owen : Women. 80 percent female, Greenpeace.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : That's noble.
Nick Van Owen : Yeah well, noble was last year. This year I'm getting paid. Hammond's check cleared, or I wouldn't be going on this wild goose chase...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Uh, where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase *you*!
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : OK, so there is another island of dinosaurs, no fences this time, and you wanna send people in, very few people, on the ground? Right? And who are these four lunatics that you're-you're trying to con into this?
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[while luring the T-rex to follow them to the docks]
Sarah Harding : Ian, slow down.
[Ian looks behind him and sees the T-rex coming]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Uh... I don't think so.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Hang on, this is gonna be bad.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : You sent my girlfriend to this island alone?
John Hammond : "Sent" is hardly the word. She couldn't be restrained. She was already working in San Diego, doing some research at the animal park. It's only a couple of hours' flight from there. And she was adamant, absolutely adamant about - here you are - well, making the initial foray by herself. She thinks she's Dian Fossey. "Observation without interference," she said. And she went on and on. Well, you know how it is.
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[to his daughter, Kelly]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : The queen, the goddess, my inspiration.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : The school cut you from the team?
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Kelly Malcolm : Boy she's mad at you.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I feel sorry for that guy Enrique.
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Eddie Carr : Ow ow ow ow! Don't do that. Don't do that. You gotta baby it a little bit. You gotta love it.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I'll love it when it works.
Eddie Carr : It'll work when you love it. Let me do it.
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Curious Man : You're him right?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Excuse me?
Curious Man : The scientist the guy. I saw you on tv. I believed you.
Curious Man : ROAR!
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Sarah Harding : If you wanted to rescue me from something, why didn't you bail me out of that fundraiser at the museum three weeks ago like you said you would?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Uh... this is a slightly different situation.
Sarah Harding : Or... or why not rescue me from that dinner with your parents that you never showed up for? Why not rescue me when I really need it? Actually be there when you say you will?
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Okay, we're high. And, uh, this is the safest place you can be, I think. Remember what Sarah said before, these plants make it so the animals won't even know you're here.
Kelly Malcolm : You're just trying to make me feel better. I remember all those stories you told me.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, no, no. This is nothing like that. We're in a completely different situation right now.
[hearing a Tyrannosaurus roar]
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Eddie, is there any way we can communicate with the trailers?
[Eddie hands him a landline receiver]
Nick Van Owen : [in the trailer, helping Sarah treat an injured T-Rex baby] He's moving again. Give more morphine.
Sarah Harding : We have no idea what his metabolism is. We'll kill him with too much. We'll put him into respiratory arrest.
[the landline rings and Nick moves to answer it]
Sarah Harding : Nick, I need your hands here. Right here. Put some pressure there.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : No answer. What a surprise.
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Kelly Malcolm : I'm your daughter all the time, you know. You can't just abandon me whenever opportunity knocks.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Gee, that hurts my feelings. Did your mom tell you to say that?
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Kelly Malcolm : You practically told me to come here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I... I what?
Kelly Malcolm : You said to me, "Don't listen to me." I thought you were, like, trying to tell me something or...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Kelly, Kelly. You knew exactly what I was talking about. You have no idea...
Sarah Harding : What, you want to lock her up for curiosity? Where do you think she gets it?
Kelly Malcolm : Thank you, Sarah.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Hey, don't start the teaming-up thing about this. Out of the conversation. Please. Really.
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Peter Ludlow : Well, Dr. Malcolm. Dr. Malcolm. Here to share a few campfire stories with my uncle?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : You can convince the Washington Post and the Skeptical Inquirer of whatever you want, but I was there. I know what happened, and so do you.
Peter Ludlow : Do you actually believe that everyone who chose discretion did so for nefarious motives? Even Lex and Tim?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Leave them out of it. It's not a game.
Peter Ludlow : No, it isn't. You signed a nondisclosure agreement before you went to the island that expressly forbade you from discussing anything you saw. You violated that agreement.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Yeah, I did, and you lied. You twisted the facts surrounding the deaths of three people. And you stuffed misinformation down the public's throat, which made me look like a nut, hasn't been so good for my livelihood, and when you spin...
Peter Ludlow : We made a generous compensatory offer for your injuries.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : That was a payoff and an insult. And when you spin reality, when you cover up evidence, uh, it hurts. It ruins more than just my reputation. It hurts...
Peter Ludlow : As I recall... as I recall, your university revoked your tenure for your selling wild stories to...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : I didn't sell anything, I never took a cent, and I told the truth.
Peter Ludlow : Your version of it.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : There aren't any versions of the truth. And I'll tell you something. InGen can't keep spewing out...
Peter Ludlow : InGen is my responsibility now, Doctor, and I will jealously defend its interests.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Your responsibility? What about Mr. Hammond?
Peter Ludlow : It is our board of directors which I must look in the eye, not my uncle. Really, you must trust me. These problems of yours are about to be rendered moot. In a few weeks' time, they'll be long forgotten.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Not my be.
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John Hammond : [Malcolm learns his girlfriend is on an island of dinosaurs by herself] Oh, come on. She'll be fine. She spent years studying African predators, you know, sleeping downwind and all. She knows what she's doing. And believe me, the research team will...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : [holding up a hand to silence him] It's not a research expedition anymore. It's a rescue operation, and it's leaving right now.
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Eddie Carr : [watching Sarah interact with a stegosaurus] Wow. Is this even possible?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : What? This? What'd you think you were going to document? What'd you think you were gonna see?
Nick Van Owen : Animals. Maybe, uh... big iguanas.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : [sighing] Fruitcakes.
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Sarah Harding : What bothers you is that I'm not afraid of this place and you are.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Of course I am. That's the whole thing.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : [trying to use the satellite phone] Why in the hell, uh, doesn't this thing ever work?
Eddie Carr : You know, it's not a landline. You're not in a phone booth. You gotta wait for a decent signal.
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Sarah Harding : Ian, don't be mad. I was gonna call you in a day or two to let you know where I was. I always do, don't I? Come on. I'm the best kind of girlfriend there is: one who travels a lot. You like that, right? You love your independence.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Well, I've gotten used to being apart, but that doesn't mean that that's how I want to, uh, live.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Say, I haven't had a chance to wish you luck on your new business venture. You're off to a promising start.
Peter Ludlow : My team is intact, Doctor. I'm sorry for the loss of your man.
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Roland Tembo : Our communication equipment's been destroyed. And if your radio and satellite phone were in those trailers that went over the cliff...
Dr. Ian Malcolm : They were.
Roland Tembo : ...then we're stuck here, ladies and gentlemen, and stuck together, thanks to you people.
Nick Van Owen : Hey, we came here to watch. You came to strip-mine the place. Back off.
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John Hammond : You were right and I was wrong there. Did you ever expect to hear me say such a thing? Thank God for Site B.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Site B?
John Hammond : Isla Nublar was just a showroom, something for the tourists. Site B was the factory floor. That was Isla Sorna, 80 miles from Nublar. We bred the animals there and nurtured them for a few months and then moved them into the park.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, really? I-I did not know that.
John Hammond : Now, after the accident in the park, Hurricane Clarissa wiped out our facility on Site B. Call it an act of God. But we had to evacuate, of course, and the animals were released to mature on their own. "Life will find a way," as you once so eloquently put it. And by now we have a complete ecological system on the island, with dozens of species living in their own social groups, without fences, without boundaries, without constraining technology. And for four years... I've tried to keep it safe from human interference.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Well... that's right, that's right. I mean, hopefully, you've kept this island quarantined, uh, and contained. But I'm in shock about all this. I-I mean, that they're still alive. Uh, you bred them lysine-deficient. Shouldn't they have, uh, kicked after seven days without supplemental enzymes?
John Hammond : Yes! But, by God, they're flourishing! That's one of a thousand questions I want the team to answer.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Team?
John Hammond : Yes. I've... I've organized an expedition to go in and...
[using Malcolm as a crutch to stand up]
John Hammond : Thank you. And document them, to make the most spectacular living fossil record the world's ever seen.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Wait a minute. Go in and document? What do you mean, like with people?
John Hammond : Yes. The animals won't even know they're there. Very low impact. Strictly observation and documentation.
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Sarah Harding : [using the baby T-Rex to lure its parent to the waterfront] This guy's almost fully awake. Do you know where you're going?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Yeah. The waterfront's right on the other side of these warehouses.
Sarah Harding : Is there any way through?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, God, there could be.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Say, I haven't had a chance to wish you luck on your new business venture. You're off to a promising start.
Peter Ludlow : My team is intact, Doctor. I'm sorry for the loss of your man. You know it's very easy to criticize someone who generates an idea, assumes all the risk
Dr. Ian Malcolm : When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off like a hustle, I mean it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation, so uh... Hey I'm sure your kid's are gonna be sharp as tacks.
Peter Ludlow : Hammond's reach exceeded his grasp. Mine does not.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas, and um... I'm gonna be there when you learn that.
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Sarah Harding : And the rexes may continue to track us too if they perceive a threat to themselves or to their infant.
Dr. Robert Burke : No, no, you're wrong there, Dr. Harding, we'll lose them once we leave their territory.
Sarah Harding : No don't bet on it. Tyrannosaur has got the largest proportional olfactory cavity of any creature in the fossil record, with the exception of one.
Dr. Robert Burke : Right. Uh, uh, turkey vulture could scent up to 10 miles
Peter Ludlow : Right. This is all very thrilling, but I say we should push on to the village.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : We could head back down to the lagoon.
Roland Tembo : And do what? Sit out in the open next to a heavily used water source and hope your captain decides to comes back.
Nick Van Owen : He won't do that, he knows better.
Roland Tembo : Then we head for the village. We might find some shelter, and we can call for help. Rex just fed, so he won't stalk us for food.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Just fed? I assume you're talking about Eddie? You might show a little respect. The man saved our lives by giving his.
Roland Tembo : Then his troubles are over. My point is that predators don't hunt when they're not hungry.
Nick Van Owen : No, only humans do.
Roland Tembo : Oh, you're breaking our hearts. Saddle up! Let's get this movable feast underway.
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Sarah Harding : Don't light that! Dinosaurs pick up scents from miles away. We're here to observe and document, not interact.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Which is a scientific impossibility.Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. What you study, you change.
Sarah Harding : I'll risk it. I'm sick of scratching around in rock and bone... making assumptions about the nurturing habits of animals... that have been dead for 65 million years. Then you fill my head with stories. Of course I came down here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Stories of mutilation and death. Were you paying attention?
Sarah Harding : Please! Don't treat me like a grad student. I've worked around predators since I was 20. Lions, jackals, hyenas, you.
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Butler : Who shall I tell Mr. Hammond is calling?
Dr. Ian Malcolm : lan Malcolm. I've been summoned.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : This joint's kind of creepy, isn't it? Is everything okay?
Lex : Well, not exactly.
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Eddie Carr : My God, they are well-organized. Those are some major-league toys.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Maybe I should ask to use their phone. Their dish is bigger than yours.
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Eddie Carr : Lindstradt air rifle. It fires a subsonic Fluger impact delivery dart.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Does it work any better than your satellite phone?
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Dr. Ian Malcolm : Look. She has to touch it. She can't not touch. She can't not touch.
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Nick Van Owen : [about the stegosauruses] They're just protecting their baby.
Dr. Ian Malcolm : [about Sarah] So am I.
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Curious Man : [In the train] You're him, right?
Ian Malcolm : [while reading a magazine, curiously] Excuse me?
Curious Man : The scientist? The guy? I saw you on TV. I believed you.
[Impersonating dinosaur roar]
Curious Man : .
