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• I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

  Johnny Cash

  Thinking, Jail, Done

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• I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

  Justin Theroux

  Enough, Infringement, Cheated

  Source: collider.com

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• Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Likes, Virtue

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• And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

  Sophocles

  Fool, Action, Strikes

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.60, Penguin

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• I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

  Eleanor Catton

  Thinking, Speech, Facts

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• The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Imagination, Trouble

  Alan Watts (1967). “Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship”

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• My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

  Adam Rapp

  Girlfriend, Character, Emotional

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• Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Taken, Winning

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• Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Hands, Cities

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• Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Art, Hard Work, Want

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• John Kerry accused President Bush of catering to the rich. You know, as opposed to John Kerry who just marries them.

  Jay Leno

  President, Rich, John Kerry

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• Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Allies, Shame

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Innocent Man, Guilt

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• The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

  Peggy Noonan

  Careers, Support, Political

  "The Era of Metadata". blogs.wsj.com. June 8, 2013.

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• The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

  William O. Douglas

  Wall, Rights, Law

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• It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

  Michael Specter

  Fraud, Monsanto, Being Accused

  "Why the Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto" by Michael Specter, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Balance, Fairness

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• A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  Apology, May, Defence

  1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

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• When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.

  C. S. Lewis

  Plato, Doctors, Catholic

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.403, Cambridge University Press

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• It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Party, Self, Suspicion

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.166

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• I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!

  Al Snow

  Mom, Lonely, Fun

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• [A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Doe, Moral

  John Stuart Mill (2010). “The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism”, p.70, Modern Library

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• I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Done, Consciousness, Has Beens

  W. V. QUINE, Willard Van Orman Quine (1987). “Quiddities”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Men, Guilty

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