W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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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.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Vicki Delany
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
Taylor Sheridan
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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.
Natsuo Kirino
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Kate Mosse
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter
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Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.
William Shakespeare
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I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
Li Bingbing
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No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
Bill Gates
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You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert