Accused Quotes - Page 6

• I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

  Hilary Swank

  Believe, Fate, People

  "Conviction - Hilary Swank interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Men, Hurtful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

  Chris Pronger

  Hockey, Play, Shoes

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was hoping to be a healthy example, because we can't all look like all of these actresses and the models you see on the covers of magazine. And they aren't doing it healthfully anyway, I promise you. And I could not believe the backlash. I could not believe that people twisted and turned that story - and accused me of having body image issues or an eating disorder. And then someone explained to me that most people on the planet probably don't know what Weight Watchers is, that it's really just about good eating habits.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Believe, People, Healthy

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• I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Real, Hippie, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Believe, Talking, Too Much

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• I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

  Stephen Colbert

  Host, Minutes, Producers

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• If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, People, Drug

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

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• Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Humorous, Gambling

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.132, Da Capo Press

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• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Citizens, Done

  The Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

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• I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Worst Enemy, Mind

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.157, Editions Didier Millet

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• You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

  James Patterson

  Lying, Play, Innocent

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• Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

  Minor White

  Portraits, Photographer, Brooms

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• You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win." "Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me. "Aye, but it's not working." "Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.

  Moira J. Moore

  Winning, Thinking, Irritated

  Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.72, Penguin

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• Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Believe, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.253, Columbia University Press

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• One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

  Drew Waters

  Asks, One Thing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Wish, I Can

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• I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

  Lenny Bruce

  People, Taste, Restaurants

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• You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.

  Kim Harrison

  Lying, Like You, Seducing

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• Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Gourmet, Good Things

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.23, Random House

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• A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

  Rumi

  His Love, Lovers, Lost

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Book, Writing

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• Donald Trump accused Huma Abedin of sharing state secrets with her husband. I think Trump clearly lacks a sense of Huma.

  Michael R. Burch

  Husband, Thinking, Secret

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• No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness of their constitutional rights. No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, these rights.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Exercise, Rights, Should Have

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• In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Years, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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