Stealing Quotes - Page 40

• In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

  Robert Kennedy

  New York, Lying, California

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• When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

  Saint Basil

  Names, Clothes, Giving

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• We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Wall, Darkness, Grows

  "Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus". Book by Mary E. DeMuth, 2012.

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• Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Color, Worry, Mind

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

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• The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

  Edvard Munch

  Heart, Artist, Men

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• Most authors steal their works, or buy.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Writing, Plagiarism

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.87

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• Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

  Andy Grove

  Time, Office, Pieces

  Computer Decisions, Volume 16, p. 128, 1984.

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• And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

  David Jeremiah

  Giving, Thieves, Tomorrow

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• There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Long, May

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.

  Kitty Kelley

  Children, Two, White

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• Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Thinking, Heaven, Skins

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.120

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• Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Song, Stars, Attitude

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• It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

  Anthony Anderson

  Trying, Action, Diamond

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

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• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Robins, Looks

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• There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

  Brian Andreas

  Fire, Needs, Stories

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• Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

  Paul Bremer

  Years, Trying, Trouble

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• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  Frank Abagnale

  Giving, Identity, Information

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• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  Gary Coleman

  People, Want, Intention

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• Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

  Ricky Jay

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  Karin Fossum

  Children, Believe, Despair

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• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  Dan Glickman

  People, Creative, Entertainment

  "US teenager faces jail for film piracy". www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.

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• If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

  Idris Elba

  Jail, Water, Bottles

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• I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

  George Thorogood

  Good Woman, Rich, Young

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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• I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Motivational, Movie, Artist

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• Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

  Bob Dylan

  Keys, Wind, Low Self Esteem

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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