Murder Quotes - Page 17

• On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Hands, Police

  "The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Dropping, Rate, Areas

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

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• The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

  Steve Earle

  Lying, Murder Victims, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Killing Someone

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Kids, Years, Oakland

  "Lupe Fiasco Considers Retirement After Chief Keef Spat" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2012.

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• Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  Nathan Fillion

  Writing, Imagination, Guy

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Castle isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  Nathan Fillion

  Castles, Wonder, Happened

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

  Al Franken

  Political, Purpose, Use

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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Home, Alzheimer's

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

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• When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

  Kirk Hammett

  Temptation, Starting Out, Gains

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• It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

  Michael Haneke

  Ideas, Creating, Enemy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Suicide, Ideas, Literature

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.112, Broadview Press

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• In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Reality, Men, Film

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• Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Death, Sarcastic

  Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb (1997). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, War, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

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• All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

  Donna Leon

  School, Murder Mysteries, Television

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

  Paul Merton

  Heart, Night, Sitting

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• Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Giving, Soul

  "Forgiving Others and Trusting God . . . a Handbook for Survivors of Child". Book by J. E. Norris-Bernal, p. 16, 2011.

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• If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, Ammo, Ifs

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

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• Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

  James Otis

  Tyrants, May, Realms

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, Moving, Dark

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• I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

  Richard Roeper

  Wife, Tvs, Comedy

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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