Best crime movie quotes of 2012

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Killing Them Softly picture

Jackie Cogan: My friend, Thomas Jefferson is an American saint because he wrote the words 'All men are created equal', words he didn't believe since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He's a rich white snob who's sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So, yeah, he writes some lovely words and aroused the rabble and they went and died for those words while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community? Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fuckin' pay me.

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Alfred: You are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. I swore to them that I would protect you, and I haven't.

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Jack Reacher picture

James Barr: There's this guy. He's a kind of cop, at least he used to be. He doesn't care about proof, he doesn't care about the law, he only cares about what's right. He knows what I did. You can't protect me. No one can.

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Brian Taylor: I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathy. Nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.

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Andy: Don't act like you don't like this shit.
Chris Farraday: Why, is that obvious? I know but don't tell your sister.

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The Iceman picture

Mr. Freezy: I only feel alone around other people. Couldn't be truer.

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Safe picture

Luke Wright: There's a school for gifted children up in Seattle. It's a nice drive... If you like trees and shit.

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Picasso: Confucius said, "When setting off on a path of revenge, dig two graves."
Alex Cross: That's fine with me as long as you're in one of them.

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Chon: You're already dead. You're dead from the moment you're born. If you can accept that, you can accept anything.

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Robot & Frank picture

Frank: Why are you wearing a space helmet?
Robot: Frank, we need to leave.

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Tobin Frost: Time's a-wasting. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.

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Fire with Fire picture

Karen Westlake: I will put you in witness protection. The feds will keep safe.
Jeremy Coleman: So my whole life just... just goes away?
Mike Cella: You get to keep your first name.

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Freelancers picture

Malo: How you doing? I'm the new guy.
Joey: Hi, new guy. I'm sure you're really nice, but I don't fuck cops.
Malo: I just got here. Starting rumors about me already?
Joey: What, you're not a cop?
Malo: No, I'm not a nice guy.

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Curtis: Here. You want to take that one down to the basement, dude? I'm coming with you. Let's go.
Finn: [Hearing the statement Alexis made earlier] "People get really good deals if they find, like, a dead body in the basement". The basement level in Dragons and Warriors is a prison filled with ghosts.
Curtis: Yeah, well, the basement in a real life is just a basement. You can do it.
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Brian: I don't even know where the kid lives.
Lenore: You found her in a city of 12 million people in less than 72 hours.

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The Sweeney picture

DI Jack Regan: We've gotta flop on that jug that Harry was talking about.

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Robin: I'm not gonna let you bring us both down.

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Doc: My friend is looking for a "party."
Wendy: Yeah? What kind of party?
Val: Bar Mitzvah.

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Lula: We got the whole good cop/bad cop thing going on; except we're hookers.

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