Cop Quotes

• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

  Charlton Heston

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  Gary Lockwood

  Stars, People, Mind

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• I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

  Mariska Hargitay

  New York, Thinking, Gun

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• I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Girl, New York, Tough

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• I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

  Judd Nelson

  America, People, Shields

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

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• I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

  Jerry Garcia

  Money, Thinking, Drug

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• I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Years, Trials, Lawyer

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivation, Winning, People

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• Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

  Dave Attell

  Funny, School, Humor

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• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

  Dick Cavett

  Eye, Administration, Nasty

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• Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Hippie, Redneck, Men

  Song: Oysters And Pearls, Album: Beach House on the Moon, 1999

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• Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

  Tim Meadows

  Gun, Chicago, Arrested

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• My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

  Josh Hartnett

  Queens, Real, Gun

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• There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

  Joe Mantegna

  Evil, Robbers, Good And Evil

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• Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

  Alan Mollohan

  Community, Administration, Crime

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• In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Black, Shadow, Economy

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  Barry White

  Truth, Cat, Two

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

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• In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Land, America, Environmental

  Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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• They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Jail

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• I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

  Aaron Spelling

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Blessing, Men, Years

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 20, 2004.

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