Cop Quotes - Page 24

• I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

  Shanola Hampton

  Gun, Play, One Day

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• America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  America, Dumb, Middle East

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Girl, Baseball, Crazy

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• The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

  Lori Foster

  Hero, Two, Construction Workers

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• I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Smart, Thinking, Hatred

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• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.

  Douglas Preston

  Retirement, Moving, Character

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• I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

  Anne Hathaway

  Numbers, Three, Streets

  "Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Nolan’s Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Group interview, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

  Ice T

  Writing, Men, Rapper

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when
  police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Police, Easy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

  Ice T

  Complaining, Dozen, Schwarzenegger

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Play, Australia, Track

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• In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

  Mary Blakely

  Motherhood, Reality, Opposites

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• I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.

  Darius McCrary

  Challenges, Different, Burning

  Source: michaelfairmansoaps.com

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• The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"

  Ron White

  Funny, Mean, Doors

  "Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Responsibility, Men, Cities

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.81, Ballantine Books

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• [I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living (as opposed to dying) alone. That nothing-not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state-will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal things. I learned that cutting up your arms in an attempt to make the pain move from inside to outside, from soul to skin, is futile. That death is a cop-out. I tried all of these things.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Depression, Sex, Pain

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• Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.

  Jane Rule

  Giving Up, Men, Self

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested.

  Gordon Korman

  Needs, Amy, Broke

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.87, Scholastic Inc.

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• Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

  Gary Reilly

  Pairs, Adverbs

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• Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Thinking, Medicine, Stories

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• The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "Right here, officer."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

  Jason Wiles

  Clothes, Riding, East

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• The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Writing, Cells

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• 'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  Perfect, Today, Made

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• Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, People, Psychology

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.90, Vintage

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