Steven Spielberg Quotes
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
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Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime.
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During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.
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Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
