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• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Martin Scorsese

  Way, Duty, Policemen

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• We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

  Johnny Thunders

  Car, Three, Rolls Royce

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  Ice T

  Phones, Play, Cities

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

  James Carville

  Government, Political, Police

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  Bruce Willis

  Thinking, Law, People

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. June 11, 2007.

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• When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

  Paula Poundstone

  Party, Rain, Noise

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

  Lisa Gardner

  War, Novel, Apocalyptic

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• I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

  Janet Evanovich

  Book, Shopping, People

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• The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

  Jeremy Renner

  Jobs, Thug, College

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• In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.

  Robert Pattinson

  America, Criminals, Watches

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• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  Peter Berg

  Football, Character, Hockey

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• Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Country, Real, Gun

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wwe, Goliath, Young

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• Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

  Chelsea Cain

  Running, Ideas, Serial Killer

  Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

  John Steinbeck

  Gun, Causes, Heavy

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• Marissa laughed, utterly delighted with her mate. "Later. Food first." Butch settled back immediately, like she'd called his lust to a heel and it behaved because it wanted to be a good boy. As she left, the cop's eyes followed her with rank hunger and adoration. V shook his head. "You are a total sap.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Boys, Lust

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.2347, Penguin

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• I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

  Mark Leibovich

  Mirrors, Giving, Shining

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Understanding, Lines, Share

  "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  Ja Rule

  Beverly Hills, Heroic, Breaths

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

  Harlan Ellison

  People, Upset, Quality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

  Dan Rather

  Stupid, Air, Stuff

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• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  Negin Farsad

  Creative, Challenges, Boring

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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