The Wire Quotes
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Well, you know what they say: "stupid criminals make stupid cops". I'm proud to be chasing this guy.
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Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: [McNulty has trouble loading up the camera] Maybe you ought to set up an easel on the sidewalk and do a sketch instead.
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Donette: Boy, don't nobody give a damn about you and your story. You got money, you get to be whatever you say you are. That's the way it is.
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State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?
Omar: Day at a time I suppose?
Omar: Day at a time I suppose?
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Troy Wiggins: He told me his name was Wendell O. O as in Oh, **** I tried to sell **** to an undercover officer.
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Witness: I saw only the one of them. He was black, big I thought. With a large weapon.
Bunk: BNBG.
Vernon: [laughing] Big Negro, Big Gun.
Bunk: BNBG.
Vernon: [laughing] Big Negro, Big Gun.
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McNulty: [standing over Stringer's body, talking to Bunk] I caught him, Bunk. On the wire. I caught him. He doesn't fuckin' know it.
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Squeak: You've got to be the stupidest motherfucker I've ever dated.
Bernard: [to crony] I can't wait to go to jail.
Bernard: [to crony] I can't wait to go to jail.
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Lester: Remember when I was a cadet, I was up here on a cadaver search. Instructor gets on the radio to say "We're looking for one body in particular. If you go grabbing every one you see, we'll be here all day."
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Carcetti: Did you vote for me Norman?
Norman: [laughing] The sanctity of the voting booth is a cornerstone of American democracy.
Norman: [laughing] The sanctity of the voting booth is a cornerstone of American democracy.
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Norris: You know what we use the polygraph for? Leverage. To get them in here and fuck with them.
Kima: No wonder this shit's inadmissible.
Kima: No wonder this shit's inadmissible.
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Omar: I've got a bounty on my head man. Five figures! If I'd known I'd be sharing quarters with all these boys - I'd probably wouldn't have robbed so many of them.
Bunk: Aww, yeah, that golden rule.
Bunk: Aww, yeah, that golden rule.
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Omar: [in a lockup room] Come on now, when have you ever known me to out my gun on someone thats not in the game?
Bunk: [laughing] Omar...
Bunk: [laughing] Omar...
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Snoop: Let us pray. Here we lay a couple New York boys who came too far South for their own fuckin' good. Where ya fuckin' Yankee pride at now, fuckin' bitches? Let's get the fuck outta here.
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Norman: Did you hear that naked ass appeal to racial solidarity? I'd like to kick his pale entitled ass.
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Marlo: [to Herc] But you know cameras. Kinda like pigeons in the storm. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes they come back, sometimes... but I'll keep an ear out on it.
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Michael: Thought maybe I could get with Chris... I--I've got a problem I can't bring to no one else.
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Omar Little: [as he is leaving prison] You my ride?
Bunk: I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
Bunk: I'm your mother fucking savior is what I am.
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Carver: I like to think that until the handcuffs actually fit, there's still talking to be done.
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Bunk: He’s tellin’ it like a bitch. We even went to Mickey D’s for him because he was so motherfuckin’ helpful. Two quarterpounders. Big fries. MacDonaldland cookies. Dr. Pepper... That’s how your boy roll, right?
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