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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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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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 just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
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During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."
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Rich kids never go to jail. Rich kids never buy on sale. Rich kids always have the most fun. Man, I wish that I was one.
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It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.
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With love's light wings did I o'er–perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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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.
