Crimes And Misdemeanors Quotes

• The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Sex, Liberty

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• Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

  Woody Allen

  Simple, Capacity To Love, Giving

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• You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Falling In Love, Children

  "Fictional character: Professor Levy". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Take the money and run.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Annie Hall, Chapel

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.

  Woody Allen

  Teacher, Giving, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Clifford Stern". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

  Nelson Mandela

  Law, Accountability, Humanity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Law, Usa

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

  Marie Howe

  Crime, Retribution, Traitor

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• The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Law, Punishment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.524, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Movie, Thinking, Big Fish

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Pay, Crime

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• I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

  David Limbaugh

  President, Crime, Accusing

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

  Donella Meadows

  Hype, Special, President

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