Killing Quotes - Page 14

• It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

  Andrew Bird

  Records, Half, Like You

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

  Claude Lelouch

  Suicide, Killing Someone, Perfect

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Names, People, Going Out

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, White, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do.

  Billy Connolly

  Children, Nice, Wife

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her mother, because in "Beloved" you have a mother killing their children. This is not something a child would accept very easily. And would never understand.

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Focus on the princess, not on the problem. You can't marry the princess without killing the dragon. So when you see the dragon, just remember: There's a princess on the other side.

  Doug Wead

  Princess, Dragons, Focus

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

  Tony Campolo

  Kids, Grandchildren, Rewards

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• When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

  Winston Churchill

  Ladybugs, Butlers, Asks

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• The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

  Richard M. Daley

  Havoc, Homicide

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.

  Raul Garcia

  Blood, Brain, Monsters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

  Jim Shaw

  Jealous, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Feelings, Suffering, Tragedy

  "Back to the Führer: This Guy Studies Baby Hitler Time Machine Scenarios". Interview with Dave Glison, www.motherjones.com. October 23, 2015.

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• When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

  George W. Bush

  Marine, Blood, Example

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Difficult, Justification

  Karen Armstrong (2006). “The great transformation: the beginning of our religious traditions”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Father, Wedding Anniversary

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• The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.

  Angela Merkel

  Military, Blow, Als

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• The killing of Osama has taken place nearly 13 years after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the death of over 200 people, in an act believed to have been masterminded by Osama. His killing is an act of justice to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the many more who suffered injuries.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Taken, Years, People

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Flags, Flag Waving

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• I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

  Ivan Lendl

  Good Day, Bad Day, Retiring

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• I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Years, Shapes, Pharmacy

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