Cop Quotes - Page 15

• I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah."

  Joe Rogan

  Reading, Ideas, Listening To Others

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

  Errol Morris

  Blue, Law, Texas

  Source: collider.com

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• I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Taken

  "Custodians of chaos" by Kurt Vonnegut, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

  John Steinbeck

  Kids, Fighting, Wrath

  The Grapes of Wrath ch. 28 (1939)

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• Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Taken, Religion

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

  William Gibson

  Brother, Book, Reality

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• I never worried about becoming typecast. People have said that to me, but I never worried about it. As long as the part is three dimensional, I'm okay with it, whether the role is to play the heavy, the cop.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Long, People, Worried

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Spy, Television

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• I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Thinking, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There's the brilliant exciting scary thing that's going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from space and then you push it over and it's dead. It becomes mortal and it has human needs and it always sort of feels like a shame. Maybe because of all the cop shows and such, we're a generation that needs to have problems solved for us in fiction.

  Evie Wyld

  Thinking, Scary, Brilliant

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

  Roger Ebert

  Drama, Doctors, Cinema

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• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  Ice Cube

  Support, Acting

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• I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

  Danny Boyle

  America, Film, Genre

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• It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

  Raymond Kelly

  Brain, Crime, Violent

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Song, Party, Beverly Hills

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• You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.

  Bryce Harper

  Dream, Goal, Want

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  Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Giving, Trying

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• Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

  Christopher Moore

  Law, Vampire, Invitations

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping: Book 1: Pine Cove Series”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

  Denis Leary

  Would Be, Way, Crime

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• As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

  Rodney King

  Running, Men, Black

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

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• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Strong Women, Thinking, Being A Strong Woman

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

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• Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.

  Hulk Hogan

  Falling In Love, Crazy, Play

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• I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

  Woody Harrelson

  Running, Ohio, Firsts

  Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2012.

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• In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Night, Assumption, Middle

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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