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I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
Brian Eno
Crime
Think
Station
Claiming
Kind
Bad
Some
Above
Risen
Supposed
Committed
Artist
Which
Really
Pop
Pop Star
English
Star
Suddenly
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
Bryan Fuller
Wonderful
Crime
Thomas
Books
Harris
About
Horror
Horror Movie
Thriller
Always
Were
Movie
Interesting
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein
Fashion
Me
People
Crime
Looking
Alive
Stay
About
Talk
Industry
Organized
Fashion Industry
It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.
Carl Hart
Mistake
Crime
Made
Mistakes
Fact
Make
Human
In Fact
Certainly
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
War
Crime
Collective
Country
Defense
Imply
Does
Which
Aggression
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Carol Anshaw
Hate
Crime
Face
Remark
Never
Been
End
Disparaging
Even
Receiving
We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
Carrie P. Meek
Crime
Symptoms
Caring
Solely
Focusing
About
Well
Got
Causes
Stop
Start
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
Carrie P. Meek
Crime
Tough
First
More
First Place
Were
Stop
Happening
Place
Really
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek
Life
Desperation
Try
Crime
Tough
Our
Leave
Were
Children
Them
Deprivation
Really
Save
I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'
Carrot Top
Good
You
People
Crime
College
Took
Neighborhood
Sign
Laugh
Would
Had
Come
How
Wall
Get
Did
Where
Dorm
Even
Watch
If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
Cass Sunstein
Change
Quality
Crime
Air
Angeles
Rise
Performance
Particular
Institutions
Likely
Toys
Terrible
Unusually
Answer
Los
Los Angeles
Private
Lot
Spur
Improve
Expensive
Whenever
Public
Transparency
Company
Recalled
Dallas
University
I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.
Celia Rivenbark
Crime
Degree
College
Criminal
Everything
College Degree
Weddings
Covered
Tiny
Newspaper
Working
Started
All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'
Chael Sonnen
Crime
Same Thing
Okay
Sin
Same
Decided
Thing
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles B. Rangel
Crime
Believe
Our
Penalties
Only
Invisible
Judges
Imposed
Juries
Current
Legislature
Process
Sanctions
Then
Should
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
Charles Bass
Crime
Parents
Poverty
Single
Become
Live
Living
Difficulty
Crimes
Several
Independent
Had
Also
Frequent
Making
Targets
Commit
Children
Transition
Many
Foster
Foster Children
Homeless
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill
Great
Crime
Danger
Daring
Lies
Excel
Well
Chiefly
Acting
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.
Charles M. Blow
People
Crime
Degree
Poverty
Few
Too
Despair
Hopelessness
Mention
Concentrated
Discussing
Few People
Which
Violence
I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.
Charles Murray
Religion
You
Marriage
Culture
Crime
Think
Increase
Had
Attraction
Lots
Going
Which
Decrease
Things
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen.
Charles Platt
Better
Cause
Crime
Our
System
Willing
Scared
Able
Someone
Network
Computer
Hysteria
Perhaps
Protected
Because
Caused
Train
Than
Cracks
Human
Information
Public
Far
Then
Much
Far Less
Less
Who
Even
Why
Railroad
Eager
Damage
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
Charlie Pierce
Me
Crime
Broad
City
John
John Kennedy
Remains
Daylight
American
Streets
Kennedy
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
Charlie Trotter
Crime
College
Idiot
Kick
Possessed
Punishment
Brothers
Got
After
Then
Right
Started
If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?
Cheo Hodari Coker
Crime
Control
Controlling
Community
Criminal
Everything
Superhero
Boss
He
Protect
Make
Him
Does
His
Going
Decide
Then
'Clockers' - as much as it is a very focused crime drama, it sprawls.
Cheo Hodari Coker
Crime
Drama
Focused
Very
Much
I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.
Chinmayi
Hope
Women
Police
Social Media
Crime
Definitely
Know
Also
Social
Help
Media
There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.
Chris Murphy
Crime
Gun
Evidence
Anecdotal
Guns
More
Leads
Empirical
Less
Zero
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
Christiane Amanpour
Crime
Somebody
Country
Mentioned
Instance
Leading
Mayhem
Decline
Why
Actually
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