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Librarian Alice: I don't remember seeing any legs, but it definitely had arms, because it reached out for me. Ray Stantz: [happily] Arms? I can't wait to get a look at this thing! Peter Venkman: Alice, I'm going to ask you a couple of standard questions, okay? Have you or any of your family been diagnosed schizophrenic? Mentally incompetent? Librarian Alice: My uncle thought he was St. Jerome. Peter Venkman: I'd call that a big yes. Uh, are you habitually using drugs, stimulants, alcohol? Librarian Alice: No. Peter Venkman: No, no. Just asking. Are you, Alice, menstruating right now? Library Administrator: [disturbed] (What?) What has that got to do with it? Peter Venkman: Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

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Hotel Guest: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut? Peter Venkman: [chuckles] No, we're exterminators. Somebody saw a cockroach up on 12th. Hotel Guest: That's gotta be some cockroach. Peter Venkman: Bite your head off, man. Ray Stantz: Going up? Hotel Guest: (No, thanks.) I'll take the next one.

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Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams. Peter Venkman: Why? Egon Spengler: It would be bad. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"? Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Ray Stantz: [shocked gasp] Total protonic reversal. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

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Peter Venkman: We came, we saw, we kicked its ass! Hotel Manager: Did you see it? What was it? Ray Stantz: [holding up the steaming ghost-trap] We got it! Hotel Manager: What is it? Will there be any more of them? Ray Stantz: [coughs] Sir, what you had there was what we referred to as a focused, non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class-5 full-roaming vapor. Real nasty one, too. Peter Venkman: And now... [clears his throat] ...let's talk seriously. Now, for the entrapment, [Spengler holds up four fingers behind the Manager] we're gonna have to ask you for four big ones, $4,000 for that, but we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast, [Spengler holds up one finger] and that's only going to come to $1,000, fortunately. Hotel Manager: $5,000? I had no idea it would be so much; I won't pay it. Peter Venkman: Well, that's all right. We can just put it right back in there. Ray Stantz: Yeah, we certainly can, Dr. Venkman. Hotel Manager: No, no, no, no! All

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Peter Venkman: Can I help you? Walter Peck: I'm Walter Peck, I'm with the Environmental Protection... [Venkman shakes hands with Peck, with Ectoplasm on his hands] ...Agency, the third district.

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Winston Zeddemore: Hey, guard! Look, I want to make a phone call. Yeah, I just work with these guys, but I wasn't even there! Egon Spengler: It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building. Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920, he started a secret society. Guard: Okay, Ghostbusters, the Mayor wants to see you guys. Whole island's going crazy, let's go. Peter Venkman: I got to split, the Mayor wants to rap with me about some things.

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Peter Venkman: All right. This chick is toast! Peter Venkman: Got your stick? Ray, Egon, Winston: [together] Holdin'! Peter Venkman: Heat 'em up! Ray, Egon, Winston: [together] Smokin'! Peter Venkman: Make 'em haaard! Ray, Egon, Winston: [together] Ready! Peter Venkman: Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown.

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