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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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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If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.
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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.
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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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Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.
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I suspect if we continue to work hard, we can continue to hopefully prove ourselves worthy.
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Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.
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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.
