- What is the first thing you notice in a person?
- Whether the person is male or female.
8 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:30:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- And they may also be a bit of a tease for your memory.
- Just answer the question, you know, without, uh, dw... Don't dwell on the question.
- Uh, often when we meet people for the first time, some physical characteristic strikes us.
- What is the first thing you notice in a person?
- Whether the person is male or female.
- Uh, this is a little mathematical problem.
- Four olives, three pieces of celery.
- Right. Uh, that doesn't happen to be the question.
- Now, A train started out at Grand Central with 17 passengers aboard and a crew of nine.
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