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• It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

  Charlie Munger

  Distance, Party, Would Be

  Charlie Munger's advice on investing at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Shepherds, Pharaohs

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• Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

  Orson Welles

  People, Stupidity, World

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• You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

  Hilary Mantel

  Strong, Subtle, Being Original

  Hilary Mantel (2012). “Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Criminals, Thieves

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• A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

  Sijie Dai

  Country, Wind, Sky

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• I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

  Conrad Black

  Philosophy, Long, Cartoon

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• It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

  Stephen D. Cox

  Dope, Class, Political

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dream, Travel, Book

  Song: Son of a Son of a Sailor

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• Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

  Robert Burns

  Book, Simple, Men

  'Sketch' inscribed to Charles James Fox (1800)

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• Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Death, Shepherds

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• I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Life, Mistake, Thinking

  Speech at press conference, 17 Nov. 1973, in New York Times 18 Nov. 1973, p. 62

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• I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!

  Rob Ford

  Daughter, Teaching, Kids

  "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.

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• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  Walter Matthau

  Monday, Art, Couple

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• We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get the feeling this guy wants to be president so he has a place to live while he's remodeling his beach house. ... I'm not worried that this guy is out of touch. I'm worried he's Batman. I could see Mitt as Batman. He hears about a robbery, he changes into the magic underwear, he rushes to the crime scene, and he helps the crooks manage their new money.

  Bill Maher

  Beach, Car, House

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• From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

  Don King

  Practice, White, Boxing

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• The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.

  Alan Keyes

  Mean, Gun, Law

  Alan Keyes during U.S. Senate debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters in Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 21, 2004.

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• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  Thomas More

  Art, War, Hook

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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• Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

  Neal Boortz

  Gentleman, Clinton, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You'll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road."

  Price Pritchett

  Country, Jobs, War

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Pockets

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.

  Sam Giancana

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• It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

  Ken Livingstone

  Nice, Trying, Ambassadors

  "U.S.A. Is No. 1, on London List of Traffic Fees" by Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. May 02, 2006.

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