Killers Quotes

• How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

  Johnny Depp

  Musical, Serial Killer, Chance

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• Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Fighter

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

  Davy Jones

  Fifty, Comedy, Shows

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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Book, Fighting

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• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Hard Work, Fighter, Mercenary

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• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

  Martha Plimpton

  Strong Women, Character, Sick

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• I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.

  Erik Larson

  Inspiration, Serial Killer, Devil

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• Fear is the mind-killer.

  Frank Herbert

  Fear, Mind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Germaine Greer

  Spiritual, Pain, Athlete

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• Isolation is a dream killer.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Dream, Isolation

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• The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Men, Media

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.613, Best Books on

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• If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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

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• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Nice, Angel

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

  Robert De Niro

  Differences, Velvet, Sociopath

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• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  Ted Turner

  Men, World, Dangerous Man

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• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Greed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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• First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, People, Firsts

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