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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• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Night, Men

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• I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way

  Jimmy Wales

  Fun, Creating, Wikipedia

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• There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Fighting, Winning, Finals

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• Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer

  Gregg Allman

  Puppy, Take Me

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• So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Long, Messages

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• Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Children, Cancer

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• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing — anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  Rachel Weisz

  Women, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Emma Forrest, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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• As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

  Simone Weil

  Encouragement, Punishment, Blame

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.174, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

  Sarah Vowell

  Summer, Night, Tunes

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

  John Tesh

  Son, Years, Covering

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• Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

  Arlen Specter

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

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• Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Serial Killer, Viewpoints

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• War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  War, Tasks, Building

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• A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

  Woody Harrelson

  Prayer, Realization, Moments

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• A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

  Willard Gaylin

  Thug, Humanity, Trout

  Willard Gaylin (1982). “The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice”, Simon & Schuster

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• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  Esther Dyson

  Nice, Eyebrows, Crooks

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Serial Killer, Technique, Use

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