Cop Quotes - Page 22

• If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

  Donnie Yen

  Fighting, Actors, Bows

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Hiding Something, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.253, Penguin

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• Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Hands, Two, Doe

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• I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Doctors, Lawyer

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.

  George Pelecanos

  Doors, Law, Names

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• It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Thinking, Play, Years

  "Romney Doesn't Scare Obama. This Guy Does" By Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. June 22, 2011.

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• If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Gun, Crime

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.

  Ernest Cline

  Giving, Looks, Tickets

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

  Nora Roberts

  Pockets, Limits, Married

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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 completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Men, Years

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

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• Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Beautiful, Two

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• The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

  Ethan Hawke

  Funny, Love You, People

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• I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything about it? I played ball, because that's how I am. I'm true.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Say Anything, Lakers

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• I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Shoes, Ferguson

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Running, Night, Gun

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• We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Kids, Needs, Honest

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.

  Sue Grafton

  Reality, Law Enforcement, Illegal

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

  Jill Johnston

  Compromise, Sexuality, Fearful

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• Monitoring activities is neither new or intrusive. We did that with communities in terms of getting rid of the mob. And cops, believe me, do not want to do this. Do you think they really want to listen to you chant five times a day. However, you should look on the bright side: you might convert them.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Believe, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's no law against a sentence existing in two places at once, unlike humans, who are no longer allowed to bilocate because it confuses the cops too much.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Law, Two, Too Much

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

  Dana Stabenow

  Stories, Facts, Principles

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Intelligence, Sides

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Growth, Way

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

  Nora Roberts

  Looks, Noticing

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