The Current War Quotes

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The Current War Quotes
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“Its purpose is simple- to give life.”- Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch)

“I hope you brought your checkbooks.”- Edison to potential investors

“Let me make you so rich that you’ll wonder how you were ever disgustingly poor.”- Edison to J.P.
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“I’d strongly prefer not killing anybody.”- Edison

“How do you know all this?’- George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon)

“I read it this morning.”- Marguerite Westinghouse (Katherine Waterston)

“He engineers his own reality.”- Frank Pope (Stanley Townsend)

“What does he give a damn about?”- Westinghouse about Edison

“Counter offer- I don’t give you anything you want, you give me everything I want.”- Edison

“It’ll work.”- Samuel Insull (Tom Holland) to Edison

“I’ve got to be honest, this might not work.”- Edison to the public

“Let’s say we unscrew the lid and see what happens.”- Edison

“Edison- he picked the wrong horse.”- Westinghouse

“If you’re going to rip off Edison, rip him off right.”- Frank Pope

“How would you like to work for me?”- Edison

“Very much.”- Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult)

“Say what we practiced.”- Mary Edison (Tuppence Middleton)

“Do you not love us anymore?”- Edison’s children

“The only thing that matters here is distance.”- Westinghouse

“Shall we go for a ride?”- Marguerite Westinghouse

“I’ve done everything you’ve asked but you’re making a mistake.”- Tesla to Edison

“I can’t start again.”- Edison

“George Westinghouse saw how I did it and put on a pirate hat.”- Edison

“So you’re saying Westinghouse wants to hurt people?”- Reporter

“No. But you can.”- Edison

“Can I get you anything, sir?”- Insull

“A time machine.”- Edison

“I do ask you to be respectful as we Westinghouse this horse.”- Edison

“Today’s Mary is talking to tomorrow’s Tom.”- Mary on a recording

“I already completed the arc light project.”- Tesla

“I fix problems for idiots.”- Tesla

“Let me combine your properties. Let me clean up the mess.”- J. P. Morgan (Matthew Macfadyen)