Pat Brown Quotes

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Convictions are much more an enemy of the truth than lies.

Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling.

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.