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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Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.
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At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
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The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. ... The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.
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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.
