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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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I need to die for the killing of those people.
Author:
Aileen Wuornos
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People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.
Author:
John Wozniak
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I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.
Author:
Burt Ward
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I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Author:
Christopher Walken
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Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Author:
Alvar Vaca
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
Author:
Ted Turner
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Author:
Lars Trier
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
Author:
Allen Tate
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
Author:
John Sutter
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
Author:
Bart Stupak
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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Author:
Jim Steinman
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In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.
Author:
Joseph Stefano
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You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.
Author:
Neil Sheehan
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.
Author:
Brent Scowcroft
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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Author:
Jose Saramago
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Killing is the payoff of war.
Author:
Morley Safer
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
Author:
Arnold Rothstein
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Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
Author:
Arthur Rock
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Author:
Tom Robbins
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Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Author:
Thelma Ritter
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In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
Author:
Rick Renzi
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Killing more people won't help matters.
Author:
Jeanette Rankin
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At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Author:
Sun Ra
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
Author:
Susan Powter
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Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
Author:
William Petty
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I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.
Author:
Tim Pawlenty
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Author:
John Owen
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This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.
Author:
Marie Osmond
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Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Author:
Holly Near
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Author:
Mary Moore
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Author:
Henry Miller
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Author:
Golda Meir
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In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
Author:
Kendrick Meek
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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
Author:
John McGahern
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Author:
Marilyn Manson
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
Author:
Wendy Liebman
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Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Author:
Curtis Lemay
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Author:
Spike Lee
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I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
Author:
Denis Leary
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I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
Author:
Louis Leakey
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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Author:
Jerry Kramer
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Author:
Edward Koch
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
Author:
Edward Koch
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Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
Author:
John Keegan
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
Author:
Lloyd Kaufman
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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?
Author:
Marcy Kaptur
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Author:
Abdul Kalam
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We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
Author:
Walid Jumblatt
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Author:
Chief Joseph
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No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Author:
Eddie Johnson
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Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.
Author:
Daniel Johns
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I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
Author:
Calamity Jane
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The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
Author:
Russell Hoban
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Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
Author:
Keith Henson
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
Author:
Joseph Heller
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I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.
Author:
Marg Helgenberger
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Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
Author:
Isaac Hanson
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If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
Author:
William Greider
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
Author:
Wavy Gravy
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.
Author:
George Galloway
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
Author:
Ralph Fiennes
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I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
Author:
Craig Ferguson
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It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
Author:
Brett Favre
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If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
Author:
Robert Englund
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I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
Author:
Eliot Engel
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Author:
Albert Ellis
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
Author:
Snoop Dogg
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
Author:
Morarji Desai
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If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Author:
Ron Dellums
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
Author:
Nathan Deal
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Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.
Author:
Matt Damon
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
Author:
Bob Cousy
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The time I kill is killing me.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Author:
Leonard Cohen
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Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
Author:
William Clinton
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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Author:
Tom Clancy
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The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
Author:
Anatoly Chubais
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Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
Author:
Anatoly Chubais
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Author:
Jimmy Carter
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Author:
Keith Carradine
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If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
Author:
Tucker Carlson
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Author:
Lord Byron
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We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
Author:
Michael Burgess
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Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
Author:
Pat Brown
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
Author:
David Brower
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
Author:
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Author:
Dion Boucicault
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We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.
Author:
Sidney Blumenthal
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Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
Author:
Buffalo Bill
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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
Author:
Christina Applegate
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Author:
Alan Alda
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Author:
Henry Adams
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
Author:
Peter Ackroyd
