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Quotes
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Abe : [to Tucker] ... When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams... '... Years later, I realized I misunderstood her... 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their *germs*'...
[they both laugh]
Abe : I want you to know something, Tucker. I went into business with you for one reason - to make money. That's all... How was I to know...
[chokes up, head down]
Abe : ... if I got too close, I'd catch your dreams...
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Abe : [after the trial outside the courthouse, with lots of spectators admiring Tucker's cars] They *love* the cars, the people! Drives me crazy, that the motor company's dead... They'll never be made!
Preston Tucker : We made 'em.
Abe : Fifty cars...
Preston Tucker : Aw, what's the difference - fifty or fifty million. That's only machinery!... It's the *idea* that counts, Abe... The dream...
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Preston Tucker : Isn't that the idea? To build a better mouse trap?
Abe : Not if you're a mouse!
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Preston Tucker : Abe. Gee I appreciate you stopping by. How long you got between trains?
Abe : You like this? living in the middle of nowhere? Cupa coffee, 2, 3 in the morning, you could die first.
Preston Tucker : Or you could go into the kitchen and make some
Abe : Who needs coffee, 2 in the morning? You sit down, read the paper, chew the fat with the waitress. Here, you look around, there's nothin' but scenery
Preston Tucker : I always thought we're the scenery. How do you like your coffee?
Abe : In the city.
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Abe : Cars? You brought me here for cars?
Preston Tucker : [laughs, indicates a drawing] Does that look like a car to you? THAT, is a gold mine I'm handing you on a silver platter.
Abe : Forget it; you got no chance.
Preston Tucker : Now how can you say that? You haven't even heard my ideas yet.
Abe : Ideas? Einstein's in the idea business; he makes up numbers so high only dogs can hear them. But what does it cost him? a piece of paper, a couple of pencils.