Al Capone Quotes

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

Al Capone

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• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Perfectionist
  • Nancy Reagan

• I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Business
  • War
  • Hand

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • New
  • November
  • Colors

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Friend

• I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • True
  • Like
  • Move

• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Like
  • Only

• Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe

• It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Soul
  • Moral

• Alcun non può saper da chi sia amato,Quando felice in su la ruota siede:Però c'ha i veri e i finti amici a lato,Che mostran tutti una medesma fede.Se poi si cangia in tristo il lieto stato,Volta la turba adulatrice il piede;E quel che di cor ama riman forte,Ed ama il suo signor dopo la morte.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Wall

• Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • Music
  • Painting

• I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

  

  Susan Boyle
  • Ability
  • Turn
  • Disability

• College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• Literally, I look back on it now, and I often think to myself, 'Karamo you should have done better.' But that's the thing: when you're in that dark space, you can't do any better. And it's for people around you to say, 'You know what? I need to check in with you and be there to support you.'

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Done
  • Support

• A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

  

  Al Capone
  • Smile
  • Gun
  • Far