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- Nov 07, 2020
Gun Quotes
On family, danger, and a debate that never quite settles.
One quote recalls a son asking for a gun for Christmas and a parent deciding it was finally time, while another reflects on relatives in law enforcement and the hard choices that job can involve. Read more in our Danger quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
- Franklin Roosevelt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
- High Taxes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
- Great Stories
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- Nov 07, 2020