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We Stand Watch Together

11/16/2014

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The opening lines of End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, say it all.

They are raw, eloquent, and streetwise. All at the same time.

They're an explosive combination, one that sets the mood and pace to the rest of the film.



Alberico Collina



"I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you.

You've broken the law.

I did not write the law.

I may even disagree with the law, but I will enforce it.

No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars.

If you run away, I will chase you.

If you fight me, I will fight back.

If you shoot at me, I will shoot back. By law, I am unable to walk away.

I am a consequence.

I am the unpaid bill.

I am fate with a badge and a gun.

Behind my badge is a heart like yours.

I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I can be killed.

And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me.

They will lay down their lives for me, and I them.

We stand watch together.

The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad.

We are the police."
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Years and Days

11/12/2014

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"The years teach what the days never know." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Years

11/12/2014

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"The years in your life are less important than the life in your years." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship

11/12/2014

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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." Len Wein
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Anger

11/12/2014

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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." Ambrose Bierce
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Lost

11/12/2014

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"It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue." Oscar Wilde
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Experience

11/11/2014

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"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
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What We Discuss

11/9/2014

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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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When Angry...

11/9/2014

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"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." Thomas Jefferson

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." Mark Twain
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Tact

11/9/2014

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"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." Howard W. Newton
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