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.Nicholas Pileggi
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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.
Lake Bell -
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield -
Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
Karl Pilkington -
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Bryan Adams -
The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
Wavy Gravy -
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.
Angela Davis
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
Andrew Solomon -
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
Rita Mae Brown -
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!
Lady Gaga -
People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
Unita Zelma Blackwell -
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.
Jim Gaffigan
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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.
Mike Tyson -
Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
Vladimir Putin -
Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire.
Confucius -
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.
Ava Gardner
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Cesare Pavese -
Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.
Susan Egan -
I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
Dan Gilbert -
That Jesus is popular in Mark 2:2, however, is not a general model for Christian ministry; the rest of Mark itself shows that eventually crowds denounced Jesus (15:13–14). From these narratives we might learn to use any popularity for good at the moment but not to count on it enduring.
Craig S. Keener -
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.
Nicholas Pileggi