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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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Problem, Victim

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• We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!

  Rick Yancey

  Jealous, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the killers get far too much attention.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Too Much, Attention

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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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• Isolation is a dream killer.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Dream, Isolation

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

  Davy Jones

  Fifty, Comedy, Shows

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• Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?

  Pablo Neruda

  Time, War, Blood

  Pablo Neruda (1975). “Pablo Neruda: selected poems”

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• The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Essentials, Stoic

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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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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• What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

  Khalil

  Thieves, Politics, Murderer

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• Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

  Val Kilmer

  Psychology, Serial Killer, Want

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• I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

  Robin Tunney

  Zodiac, Film, Wells

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• The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Thug, America, People

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

  Tom Araya

  Book, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive! Interview With Slayer Vocalist/ Bassist Tom Araya". Interview with Brian Davis, www.knaclive.com. January 4, 2005.

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• In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Romantic, Stars, Hero

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

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• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Writing, People, Serial Killer

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• I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

  James Woods

  Thinking, People, Guy

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