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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Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.
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The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of teaching, namely : Exoterism and Esoterism, the former a code of discipline of the thought and mode of life of the masses; the latter the hierarchic school wherein were trained the chosen adepts destined to safeguard the rules imposed upon the people by the high priests.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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.
