Criminal Minds Quotes
Hotch: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." - Ernest Hemingway
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Hotch: My opinion doesn't matter. The job's yours if you want it.
Morgan: Hotch! Your opinion matters to me.
Hotch: My life matters to me, and I have and always will entrust you with it. Would you do the same for me?
Morgan: Hotch! Your opinion matters to me.
Hotch: My life matters to me, and I have and always will entrust you with it. Would you do the same for me?
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Rossi: "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." Stuart Chase
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Garcia: You are just jealous because you don't have the magic ingredient!
Prentiss: I have the magic ingredient...it's called Splenda.
[Garcia laughs]
Prentiss: I have the magic ingredient...it's called Splenda.
[Garcia laughs]
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Prentiss: So Hotch is even more intense now that Gideon's gone.
Reid: Yeah, I've noticed.
Prentiss: Do you think that's gonna change?
Reid: Certainly think we'll find out.
Prentiss: What about you? You ok?
Reid: Oh, I'm—I'm great.
Prentiss: Do you wanna talk about it?
Reid: What's there to talk about, really?
Prentiss: Gideon.
Reid: Oh, no. He uh—He left a letter explaining everything. Just like my dad did when he abandoned me and my mom.
Prentiss: He addressed it to you.
Reid: Yeah, yeah. You know, Gideon stood toe to toe with some of the, the sickest people on this planet. I think that took a lot of courage, right?
Prentiss: Yeah.
Reid: So, why'd he do this? It's addressed to me, but I'm—I'm not—I'm not the only one that he abandoned.
Prentiss: But why is it addressed to you? [Reid looks at her] I think you need to read that letter again.
Reid: I have an eidetic memory, Emily.
Prentiss: Ah, yeah, I know, and an IQ of 187, but what do you remember about your father?
Reid: What do you mean?
Prentiss: Well, he gave you ten years before he left, and yet, you've erased all those memories. And—it's too painful. I get it. But then, Gideon leaves. I think you need to read that letter again, and ask yourself why, of all the people he walked away from, did he only explain himself to one person… you.
Reid: Yeah, I've noticed.
Prentiss: Do you think that's gonna change?
Reid: Certainly think we'll find out.
Prentiss: What about you? You ok?
Reid: Oh, I'm—I'm great.
Prentiss: Do you wanna talk about it?
Reid: What's there to talk about, really?
Prentiss: Gideon.
Reid: Oh, no. He uh—He left a letter explaining everything. Just like my dad did when he abandoned me and my mom.
Prentiss: He addressed it to you.
Reid: Yeah, yeah. You know, Gideon stood toe to toe with some of the, the sickest people on this planet. I think that took a lot of courage, right?
Prentiss: Yeah.
Reid: So, why'd he do this? It's addressed to me, but I'm—I'm not—I'm not the only one that he abandoned.
Prentiss: But why is it addressed to you? [Reid looks at her] I think you need to read that letter again.
Reid: I have an eidetic memory, Emily.
Prentiss: Ah, yeah, I know, and an IQ of 187, but what do you remember about your father?
Reid: What do you mean?
Prentiss: Well, he gave you ten years before he left, and yet, you've erased all those memories. And—it's too painful. I get it. But then, Gideon leaves. I think you need to read that letter again, and ask yourself why, of all the people he walked away from, did he only explain himself to one person… you.
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Dr. Stan Howard: [to Hotchner] I think your greatest fear is that you can't save everyone. It is worse than I thought.
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Hotchner: Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
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Prentiss: "In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul." - Barbara Ehrenreich
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Prentiss: These guys are killing the Cleavers.
Reid: Strange.
Hotch: The pattern?
Reid: No, the Cleavers. Of all the names for a 1950s idyllic TV family. I mean it’s rife with violent implication. Kind of makes you wonder how the writers really felt about suburbia, huh?
Hotch: Focus, please!
Reid: Strange.
Hotch: The pattern?
Reid: No, the Cleavers. Of all the names for a 1950s idyllic TV family. I mean it’s rife with violent implication. Kind of makes you wonder how the writers really felt about suburbia, huh?
Hotch: Focus, please!
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Morgan: Hey girl you're on speaker. Behave.
Garcia: Or what, you'll spank me?
[Morgan gets an exasperated look.]
Garcia: Or what, you'll spank me?
[Morgan gets an exasperated look.]
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Hotchner: Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”
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Morgan: [examining camera surveillance footage'] Well, can't you get a better angle?
Garcia: Sugar, I'm not London here; I can only work with what they have. And, believe me when I tell you, the 1980s just called. They want their security system back.
Garcia: Sugar, I'm not London here; I can only work with what they have. And, believe me when I tell you, the 1980s just called. They want their security system back.
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Officer: Thing is, there's still a man out there who hasn't been caught.
Hotch: I know. And there always will be. But today we made a difference.
Hotch: I know. And there always will be. But today we made a difference.
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Hotchner: G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
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Hotchner: Erasmus wrote, "What else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and plays each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage?" .
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Garcia: [answering phone] Speak and be recognized by your empress, mortal.
Rossi: Is this the technical analyst girl?
Rossi: Is this the technical analyst girl?
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Rossi: "An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects." Martin Luther.
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Emily: [teasing Reid about coloring in a map] You know I could have gotten you a coloring book at the airport.
Reid: I'm creating a topographical map weighing down and geocoding all key locations looking for algorithms.
Emily: [nods, confused] Yeah, thats exactly what I thought you were doing.
Reid: I'm creating a topographical map weighing down and geocoding all key locations looking for algorithms.
Emily: [nods, confused] Yeah, thats exactly what I thought you were doing.
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Garcia: [reviewing Goehring's records] He also appears in a federal database for - get this - aggressive militia groups.
JJ: Aggressive militia groups. Is there any other type?
Garcia: Uh hmm. That's your federal government at work. We specialize in redundancy.
JJ: Aggressive militia groups. Is there any other type?
Garcia: Uh hmm. That's your federal government at work. We specialize in redundancy.
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Trailer Park Manager: What the hell do you want? Can't you read?
Reid: I'm not a salesman. I'm with the FBI.
Trailer Park Manager: FBI? You're not serious! You look like a pipe cleaner with eyes. I could snap you like a twig.
Rossi: But then... [steps into frame and flashes credentials] ...he isn't alone.
Reid: I'm not a salesman. I'm with the FBI.
Trailer Park Manager: FBI? You're not serious! You look like a pipe cleaner with eyes. I could snap you like a twig.
Rossi: But then... [steps into frame and flashes credentials] ...he isn't alone.
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Reid: A popular theory among leading astrophysicists estimate that the hyper-matter reactor would need about 10 to the 32nd joules of energy to destroy a planet the size of Earth. Now, Lucas said it took 19 years to build the first Death Star, right, but if you look at the new essential chronology there’s a test bed prototype for a super laser that’s been… Where you going?
Morgan: Taking back the last five minutes of my life.
Morgan: Taking back the last five minutes of my life.
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Morgan: “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” - Francisco Goya
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Morgan: 16th century English novelist Thomas Deloney wrote, "God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks."
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[After fixing the computer of a complete stranger, he proceeds to introduce himself]
Stranger: James. James Baylor. My friends call me Colby.
Garcia: Penelope. Garcia. My friends call me Wonderful.
Stranger: James. James Baylor. My friends call me Colby.
Garcia: Penelope. Garcia. My friends call me Wonderful.
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Morgan: [to Garcia] Good morning, princess.
Garcia: Good morning.
Morgan: Pump.. your brakes. [motions to Garcia to approach him] Everyday I say 'Good Morning'. Everyday you say 'I'll show you a 'Good Morning' hot stuff' Everyday. Not today?.
Garcia: I hate profilers. You know that?
Morgan: Spit it out.
Garcia: Well, I met a guy...
Morgan: You did what? Where?
Garcia: Coffee Shop. Smoking hot. I fixed his computer and then he asked for my number.
Morgan: And you just...?
Garcia: Gave it to him. Can you believe that? A complete stranger. Did I mention he was smoking hot?
Morgan: Uh, yeah, yeah. I think you did.
Garcia: Good morning.
Morgan: Pump.. your brakes. [motions to Garcia to approach him] Everyday I say 'Good Morning'. Everyday you say 'I'll show you a 'Good Morning' hot stuff' Everyday. Not today?.
Garcia: I hate profilers. You know that?
Morgan: Spit it out.
Garcia: Well, I met a guy...
Morgan: You did what? Where?
Garcia: Coffee Shop. Smoking hot. I fixed his computer and then he asked for my number.
Morgan: And you just...?
Garcia: Gave it to him. Can you believe that? A complete stranger. Did I mention he was smoking hot?
Morgan: Uh, yeah, yeah. I think you did.
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Morgan: My mother took us to church every Sunday until I moved out. This whole devil thing doesn't spook me at all.
Reid: Maybe that's because you never truly bought the God part either.
Morgan: No offense kid but you don't know what I believe.
Reid: Well, I mean, logic dictates that if you believe in the one you have to reconcile the existence of the other.
Hotchner: People's reactions to Satan is what gives it appeal to these offenders. It has power and it would be a mistake to underestimate it.
Reid: Maybe that's because you never truly bought the God part either.
Morgan: No offense kid but you don't know what I believe.
Reid: Well, I mean, logic dictates that if you believe in the one you have to reconcile the existence of the other.
Hotchner: People's reactions to Satan is what gives it appeal to these offenders. It has power and it would be a mistake to underestimate it.
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Emily: Hey, whats going on with you and Morgan?
Garcia: I told him about this guy I met at the coffee shop...
Emily: Oh.
[Emily hangs up the phone and walks over to Morgan who has been eavesdropping behind her]
Emily: When a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her, she wants him to shut up and listen.
Garcia: I told him about this guy I met at the coffee shop...
Emily: Oh.
[Emily hangs up the phone and walks over to Morgan who has been eavesdropping behind her]
Emily: When a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her, she wants him to shut up and listen.
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Garcia: William Shakespeare wrote, "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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