Killing Quotes - Page 15

• Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

  Kevin Drum

  Ben Carson, Details, Flat Tax

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• It's powerfully important for me as a pro-choice person and person who supports Planned Parenthood to have Rob accept me as not a baby-killing horrible person. That's actually a massive step away from his original position, and he's taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.

  Abigail Disney

  Baby, Choices, Support

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Numbers, Shia, Source

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• Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

  Eve Ensler

  Goes On, Levels, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

  Claudia Rankine

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Wonder

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• People see me on TV and I'm this calm, level headed guy. Honestly, that's the furthest thing from who I am. For a long time I struggled with anger and stress. It was killing me, figuratively and literally.

  Tom Bergeron

  Stress, Who I Am, Long

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

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• We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Vietnam, Communism

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• The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

  Jacques Lacan

  Eye, Evil, Movement

  Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.164, Karnac Books

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• Of course, the '60s was a study in decadence. Everything just got worse and worse, and at the end of the '60s, everything was so horrible that people were killing each other.

  Claes Oldenburg

  People, Killing Each Other, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as far as I know, there`s only one religion that`s doing that, and it is a segment of the religion of Islam that`s doing that.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Names, Religion Of Islam

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

  Veena Sud

  Stories, Things I Love, Storytelling

  Source: collider.com

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• It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could carry the weight of this story, who had the chops and who had the spirit, where they could bring in so much of their own selves to these characters. So, the casting process took many months.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Self, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

  Ishmael Reed

  Medical Problems, Racism, Suffering

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• I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

  Curtis Jackson

  School, Cracks, Selling

  "50 Cent Is Being Called A Child Abuser For Boxing With His Son" by Delenda Joseph, uproxx.com. December 17, 2016.

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• If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?

  Doug Stanhope

  Hands, People, Nicotine

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• Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

  Ashley Cole

  Team, England, Referee

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.

  Bill McKibben

  Animal, Doe, Magazines

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• Texas is killing people in the 73rd trimester.

  Christopher Titus

  Texas, People

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

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

  Dana Gould

  Two, Bird, Stones

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 12, 2013

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• The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first... I want to watch it suffer.

  Brad Stine

  Teaching, Believe, America

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• The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

  Leonard Matlovich

  Men, Air, Making Love

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• We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Two, Civilization, Risk

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