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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can`t pull the wool over my eyes, it`s absolutely freakin` impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

- Gary Coleman

(on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)) You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of religious and political persecution. It is not in any way exaggerated. If anything, the horrors perpetrated in Loudun in the 17th century were worse than Russell has chosen to show . . . the character of the priest was a marvelous one to act. Ken Russell`s brother-in-law is an historian and he helped me research Grandier`s life, with particular reference to his thesis in celibacy. The people of Loudun loved him. He walked among the plague victims and comforted them. I started to play him as a priest and realized that he was a politician.

- Oliver Reed

You perpetrated a vicious, sustained and dreadful attack on a vulnerable woman, alone at night in the concrete stairwell of a multi-storey car park.

- Peter Fox

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

- Angela Carter

The violence in society, I`m afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

- Rob Walton

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

- Giacomo Casanova

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

- Aiesha Harper

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

- Alireza Jafarzadeh

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation`s terror alert to periwinkle.

- Jon Stewart