"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."
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"The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully."
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"Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal."
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"If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?"
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"A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!"
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"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won."
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"You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely."
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"For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-" "I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?"
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"Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero."
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"The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business"
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"For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept"
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"As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script."
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"God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves."
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"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"
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"Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees."
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"Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue."
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"Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!"
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"I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief."
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