Nicholas Pileggi Quotes
Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
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The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
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As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.
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And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
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People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
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I'm afraid of a couple things. I'm afraid of getting caught up in other people's expectations, because I feel like that's an ongoing battle.
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Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.
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If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.
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Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
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Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire.
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
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I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
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Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.
