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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Salman Rushdie
Nature
Censorship
Crime
Our
Tell
Ability
Attack
Human
Just
Human Beings
Stories
Against
Beings
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
Shia LaBeouf
Old
Crime
Way
Dirty
Feel
Stuff
Feels
Like
Opera
Less
Americana
Gangster
Vintage
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil
Justice
Crime
Society
Hideous
One Thing
More
Only
Only One Thing
Namely
Than
Modern
Repressive
Modern Society
Thing
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Stand Watie
Great
World
Crime
Will
Bad
Without
Motive
Get
Any
Intention
Blunder
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Stephen Ambrose
Crime
Evil
Most
Committed
Holocaust
Ever
Alzheimer's is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this 'crime' is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves.
Tess Gerritsen
Fight
People
Crime
Way
Ensure
Only
Voices
Through
Attention
Alzheimer
Continue
Gets
Literally
Us
Who
Deserves
Raise
Funds
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
Crime
Wicked
Virtuous
Distinguishes
Felt
Err
Contrition
Human
To Err Is Human
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
Music
Oppression
Simple
Stupidity
Crime
Cruelty
Soft
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
William Bratton
Fear
Crime
Free
Duty
Live
Secure
Share
Also
While
Disorder
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
I didn't have accessories when I started my career. Did you see me wearing bling-bling when I did 'Hola at Your Boi?' No! I hustled to get money to buy them, and there is no crime if I show it or flaunt it to my fans because they gave me money to buy them.
WizKid
Buy
Me
You
Money
Fans
Crime
Gave
See
Wearing
Hustled
Because
Accessories
Get
Did
Them
Your
Show
Started
Career
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
Yair Lapid
Politics
Crime
Weakness
Only
Showing
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
Waiting
Crime
Men
Three
Prison
Year
Other
Seven
Punishment
Locked
Locked Up
Russia
Years
Up
List
Homosexuality
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Richard Dawkins
Religion
You
Crime
Satisfied
Sort
Childhood
Against
Teaches
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
Aaron Eckhart
Crime
Sort
Espionage
Fascinated
Whole
Thing
When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
Adam Cohen
Government
People
Crime
Long
Few
Destroyed
Only
Investigate
Takes
Days
Been
Report
May
After
Places
Public
Video
Should
Reasonably
Images
Kept
Needed
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Adam McKay
Crime
Has-Been
Bored
Put
Been
Dollars
Us
White-Collar
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
You've got a guy in a cape and tights running around fighting crime 24-7; this is not normal. But it worked because the kids loved it and the adults laughed with it.
Adam West
You
Crime
Fighting
Kids
Laughed
Running
Guy
Adult
Because
Around
Got
Tights
Normal
Loved
Cape
Worked
The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.
Adrian McKinty
You
Crime
Think
Crime Fiction
Definitely
Entire
About
Given
Only
Continent
Fiction
Coolest
Awards
Kelly
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Adrian McKinty
Crime
Crime Fiction
Proletariat
Noir
Fiction
Literature
You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.
Adrienne C. Moore
You
Judge
Crime
Think
Side
Criminal
Our
Sides
See
About
Proud
Human
Them
Really
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.
Alafair Burke
Best
You
Together
Lie
People
Crime
Think
Harmless
Lying
Secrets
Put
Calamity
May
Them
Novels
Based
Keeping
Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
Alan Autry
Crime
Nothing
Community
Out-Of-Control
More
Devastating
Than
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
Alan Autry
Business
Crime
Perception
Sense
Enough
Progressive
Destroy
Security
City
Paralyze
Fact
Resurgence
Vibrant
In Fact
Requires
Momentum
Even
Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.
Alan Shearer
Home
Loyalty
Crime
Club
Think
Back
Some
Having
Supported
Well
Go
Wanted
Play
Players
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.
Alastair Reynolds
Crime
Intrusion
Some
Point
Write
Weirdness
Straight
Novel
Ever
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
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