#cop

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #imitation #surpasses #truth

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#copy #geographic #how #i #leaf

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#done #ever #i #microphone #news

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#cops #crime #each #investigating #learn

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#crash #fall #helicopter #i #love

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#could #elvis #hippies #hips #his

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#cop #draw #grandfather #heard #him

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#broad #coast #defense #duties #guard

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. ↗

— John Carpenter

#always #attacking #career #copy #could