Pat Brown Quotes
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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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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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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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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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.
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Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
