Robert Goren quotes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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I know this guy. He's a lonely man with a shot at happiness. He's gonna fight for it.

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[To Coach] Look, you shouldn't lose everything because you tried to help this kid. You know, when my father died, he had just enough money to, uh, cover his own funeral. That shouldn't happen to you.

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You are tough, Mrs. Gruenwald, 'cause normally Detective Eames and I, we'd be in the living room by now.

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I think Harvey will like jail. Well, it's where all the famous people are these days.

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Doctor, tell me something. When you decide to dump this stuff, what do you do, flip a coin? Heads Asia, tails Africa?

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You cut a human being in half, Brian. How good does that make you?

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Either he's a psychic for Greenpeace or he's a liar.

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Once a murderer, always a murderer.

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Oh, uh, wow, these quick-release knots, they are, uh, very quick.

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He felt anger, he just knew better than to show it. Instead he-he went blank, like he was flipping through an emotional Rolodex, searching for the socially appropriate response. But anger...that is his only true emotional response.

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[to Mikey] Sadness. The appropriate response here... is sadness.

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They say that this should be served at room temperature, but it's best served cold: Revenge.

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You know, you can repress the memory of abuse all you want. But it always find a way to express itself.

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Gerhardt's most humane work. And no one will ever see it.

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[to Tagman] You've done evil things, but you're not evil.