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"Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we`ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos."

- Emma Thompson

The Indians had now become so bad and had stolen so much stock that it was decided to stop the pony express for at least six weeks.

- Buffalo Bill

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

- Chris Rock

They`re in much brighter spirits than last night. They still are kind of depressed. Of course, they are sad because some of them had some personal stuff in the bags, too. One of the girls had a ring passed down from her mom stolen.

- Ken Watanabe

I`ve never stolen, I never did anything.

- Ray Liotta

I was brought up in a country that relished fear-based religion, corrupt government and an entire white population living on stolen property that they murdered for and that is passed on from generation to generation.

- Sean Penn

What was the reason for invading Iraq` Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one` I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry`s money was being stolen by the king.

- Dougray Scott

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man`s leadership.

- Jessica Lange

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

- Ben Kingsley

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

- Bertolt Brecht

The stolen lobsters will be a prize catch for someone. Whoever committed this crime knew what they were looking for.

- Bob Smith

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

- Martha Gellhorn

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

- Ted Koppel

(The poles were taken off display, and work was begun) to do the right thing, ... Things that have been stolen are not appropriate to exhibit without the permission of the true owners and should be returned.

- Robin Wright

I was a speed, stolen base, agility kind of guy. I lost my balance and my ability to be something special.

- Bobby Valentine

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

- Valentino Rossi

You want to know the joke he thinks is stolen from him? It`s a Taco Bell joke,

- Carlos Mencia

Students tend to leave their valuables in similar spots in their rooms, so it`s not too hard to figure out how to find them, ... It only takes eight seconds for something to be stolen out of an unattended room.

- Grant Williams

It`s not near what we consider an epidemic, but it does happen ... each laptop that is stolen bothers me,

- Grant Williams

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn`t steal from each other.

- Barry McGuire

We already have a security plan in place '“ what we`re looking to do now is to improve our response plan for when something happens. We`re not so much worried about someone hijacking our vehicles as we are about one of our trucks being stolen and used as a weapon, or something dangerous being put on one of our vehicles while the driver is making deliveries. That`s what really concerns us.

- Bill Bennett

There were cars being stolen from the hospital car parking lot. The hospital had been looted.

- Sarah Smith

From what I`ve been told, they were stolen over graduation weekend and the doors were wide open,

- Anne Moore

Peer pressure-type thing to see what was in the box/terminals. Then, after that, they started breaking into them, realizing they could actually make money off stolen items and selling them on ebay.

- James Long

Turn it in and save a life. We know half the guns on the streets of Toronto are stolen,

- Michael Bryant

Just because information is stolen, that doesn`t make it more useful,

- Michael Hayden

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

- Jerome K. Jerome

Despite the ease of ATMs, we still recommend bringing some of your funds in traveler`s checks -- enough to get you through a few days in an emergency. They are quicker to replace than ATM cards if they are lost or stolen, and they`re not prone to being demagnetized or gobbled up by a cranky machine,

- Rick Steves

I just recently had my Visa card stolen. Right now, it`s everywhere I want to be.

- Scott Wood

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

- William Congreve

I don`t carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that`s what you`re hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I`ve dealt with it well.

- Angela Merkel

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

- Barbara Lee

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That`s probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

- Alain Couder

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

- Albert Alschuler

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- Alex Mosson

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

- Alun Michael

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

- Alvin Kernan

But even some of the programmes that are in place are missing their target, because we have not yet set up a conversation with the stolen generations.

- Alvin Kernan

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

- Alvin Kernan

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

- Alvin Kernan

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

- Alvin Kernan

I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.

- Alyson Mike

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

- Amy Koenning

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

- Andrew Karmen

They stopped several men that had stolen a postal delivery truck,

- Angie Williams

That`s the only bag I`ve stolen all year,

- Anil Khandelwal

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

- Anne Hedges

We received information within the last two weeks that there was a stolen tractor in the back yard and we were able to do quick surveillance to find that there was another vehicle being chopped or disassembled in the back.

- Anne Miller

We are under the belief that that is in fact stolen and additionally we found a stolen engine, frame and other parts was from a stolen 2005 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck that was reported stolen on May 22, 2005, out of the city of Victorville.

- Anne Miller

Nowhere in Hubbard`s record is there any mention of him going into combat, ... Hubbard lied about the medals he received and about his career in World War Two. The `Stolen Valor Act of 2005` is written and proposed to redress exactly the kinds of claims Hubbard made.

- Anthony Sanfilippo