Loaded Gun Quotes

• Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

  Alice Cooper

  Love, Gun, Loaded

  Song: Love's A Loaded Gun, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it.

  Frank Costello

  Departed

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• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Gun, Two

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• You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Divergent, Idiot

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Gun, Men

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• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Coffee, Thinking

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• We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Judging, Mountain

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

  Peter M. Brant

  Artist, Gun, Hands

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• Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Military, Knowledge, Gun

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I'm a drunken midget with a loaded gun, a loaded gun.

  Bo Burnham

  Gun, Midget, Loaded

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• If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

  Wil Wheaton

  Respect, Gun, America

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

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• If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Gun, Elephants

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• A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

  Irving Azoff

  Gun, People, Shooting

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• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Revenge, Gun, White

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

  Frank Costello

  Gun, Differences, Departed

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• I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.

  Chuck Barris

  Dream, Blow, Gun

  "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Crowds, Surrealist

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• Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?

  Kabir

  Gun, Long, Design

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• A book is a loaded gun.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Gun, Loaded

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Gun, Yellow

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.120, Random House

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• I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mistake, Gun, Thinking

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• To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

  Richard Dawkins

  Gun, Atheism, Littering

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.183, Random House

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• When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

  Byron Katie

  Suicide, Gun, Self

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