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• We weren’t violent then. There is a difference between paint and not.

  Darin Bradley

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• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  Jose Padilha

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you’ll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest – and possibly the richest – ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

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• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  Sam Harris

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• The characters I’ve played have been mostly violent, and I’m so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching ‘Fireman Sam’ with my three-year-old son Louis.

  Edward Thomas Hardy

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• Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way – as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago – they find a way to just carry on. But you’re stressed out. You’re worried, you know.

  Mohsin Hamid

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• I don’t see myself as a violent guy.

  Gene Hackman

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• Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

  Gene Hackman

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• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn’t be escapism.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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• I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.

  Emanuel Steward

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  Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

  Albert Einstein

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• I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty – but life, for me, is a violent thing.

  Wilbur Smith

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• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

  Georges Bataille

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• There’s no way to escape the fact that we’ve grown up in a violent culture, we just can’t get away from it, it’s part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we’ve always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  Sam Shepard

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• I want to be optimistic because I don’t think man is intrinsically violent.

  Bruce Kent

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• Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

  Sylvester Stallone

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• We’ve seen violent responses to ‘Satanic Verses.’ We’ve seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

  Susan Rice

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• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

  George Sand

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• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

  George S. Patton

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• Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.

  Spike Lee

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