Probe (1988)
Parker Stevenson: Austin James
Quotes
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[as he sledge-hammers a computer]
Austin : Okay, pinhead, sing "Daisy."
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Austin : You want to find out something about someone, look in their dirt.
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[in his workshop/laboratory]
Austin : Why do men blink three times every ten seconds, and women only twice? What part of the brain is the soul located in? What was the blood-clotting mechanism of a tyranosaurus? Nobody knows. But the answers are here. And I'm going to find them. That's what kind of place this is. It's the universe!
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Austin : I'm going to take you on the greatest adventure of your life. You probably'll never even thank me. Let's go.
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Michelle : I thought you never lied.
Austin : I don't. It's just that sometimes I withhold the qualifiers.
Michelle : For somebody who says facts are all that count, Mr. Jimmy Austin, you're the most deceitful person I know.
Austin : I once determined that there are forty-nine different ways to misrepresent the truth. I only use six, way below the national average of thirty-two.
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Michelle : What kind of human being are you?
Austin : When I was eight years old, I took off all my clothes and painted myself blue. Then I climbed up on the roof of a house, I placed both thumbs on the base of a lightning rod, and faced the electromagnetic north pole. Why? Why did I do that?
Michelle : How should I know?
Austin : Well, when you figure it out, then you'll know what kind of human being I am.