Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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Right! It's a Monet. It's all in the lighting.

Goren

"Returned due to insufficient postage." Somebody must have missed the last rate hike.

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My mother didn't like my girlfriends either, even if she pretended to, but she didn't kill any of them.

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Boo! --Made you look.

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You know us. We're like dumb dogs. We catch a scent and we follow it.

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She was weak, and you used her. And that really pisses me off.

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[to Maggie, after she's rescued] You’re not weak. You’re strong. You lived through it.

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I need to use my most important investigative tool. My library card.

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[to Harry] The same careful planning went into these crimes. [shows photos] Timing. Lack of forensic evidence. Except, of course, for... what the perpetrator chose to leave behind. And this is where I step back in awe. The planting of the DNA and the harvesting from human remains, you know, as a preemptive measure. It's a stroke of genius. [Harry says nothing.] Watching the police fumbling around must have been tremendous fun for the perpetrator, don't you think?

Goren

Sometimes a whale is just a whale.

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This woman is very, very good.

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You're really good at keeping secrets. Me, I just run off at the mouth.

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We are discreet with innocent victims. If they behave like innocent victims.

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What I wanna know, Ethan, is when you went searching for God, how did you end up looking for targets?

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We're pretty good at connecting the dots.