James Dean
Actor
"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning."
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Crooks
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J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?"
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world."
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"To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person"
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"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody."
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"The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell."
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"I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life."
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"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
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"Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning."
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"Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books."
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"Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan."
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"By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember"
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