Criminals Quotes - Page 36

• That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

  Ricky Jay

  Use, Way, Becoming

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2009.

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• It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Congress, Investigation, Function

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Zero, Thinking, Passivity Is

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

  Kelli Giddish

  Mom, Watches, Followers

  "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview With Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  People, Inexperience, Stuff

  "Giannoulias heads to Argentina to reflect next steps" by Kerry Lester, www.dailyherald.com. January 23, 2011.

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• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  Larry Elder

  Dad, Men, White

  "Radio talk show host Larry Elder". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 26, 2012.

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• Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

  Frank Zappa

  Order, Law, Like You

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• Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

  Roger Hodgson

  Watches, Calling, Politics

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• The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ultimately I knew if I was going to handle this in a fictional format, I would have to take a subsection of neuroscience, and that turned out to be the use of neuroscience in criminal courts.

  Richard Dooling

  Brain, Storm, Use

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• Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

  Paul Gillmor

  Children, People, Justice

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• Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gun, Evil, House

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• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  Kamala Harris

  California, Justice, Age

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• Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

  Kamala Harris

  Justice, Tough, Appetite

  "Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin". www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.

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• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  Kamala Harris

  Believe, Serious, Prison

  "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Division

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• I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

  Toby Jones

  Memories, Real, Challenges

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

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• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  Jay Sekulow

  Years, Campaign Finance, Regulation

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• As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Years, Europe

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• Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Enemy, Underestimate

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• I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Weakness, Danish, Reactions

  "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

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• I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Military, Mps

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• I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

  Maria Monk

  Practice, Astonishment, Horror

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.47

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• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  Sam Sheppard

  Mistake, Believe, Justice

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• I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Thinking, Vacation, Japan

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Protection

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