Doctor, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale, I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government.

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12 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:46:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like just as though you're describing some form of super carrot.

- That's nearly right. This carrot, as you call it, has constructed an aircraft capable of flying some millions of miles through space propelled by a force as yet unknown to us.

- An intellectual carrot! The mind boggles.

- Imagine how strange it would have seemed during the Pliocene Age to forecast that worms, fish, lizards that crawled over the earth were going to evolve into... us.

- On the planet from which our visitor came, vegetable life underwent an evolution similar to that of our own animal life, which would account for the superiority of its brain. Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

- Doctor, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale, I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government.

- I'm not therefore going to stick my neck out and say that you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins, but I promise you my readers are gonna think so.

- Not for long, not if they happen to know anything about the flora of their own planet.

- You mean there are vegetables right here on earth that can... think?

- A certain kind of thinking, yes.

- You ever hear of a telegraph vine?

- Not recently.

- Or the... Is it the Acanthus Century plant, Dr. Stern?

- Go ahead, doctor. That's your field.

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Actors: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Scotty)

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