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"Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet."
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"Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it."
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"Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents."

"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter."

"I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing."

"My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round."

"Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt."

"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."

"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."

"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince."
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