Sally Yates Quotes
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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I always train 100 percent.
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
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We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
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It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.
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You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
