William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
Jack Kevorkian -
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.
Maajid Nawaz -
No one today knows what is indecent.
Jack Valenti -
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.
Sam Brownback -
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields -
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Malcolm Forbes
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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
Edith Pearlman -
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.
Val Kilmer -
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
Daniel Berrigan -
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde -
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Beck -
The idea that an actress - mostly lauded for her performances in more than a dozen films - somehow represents a threat to Iran's national security is laughable at best. But in Ahangarani's case, far from anything humorous, the allegations have actually resulted in the sober prospect of real prison time.
Nazanin Boniadi
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People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
Laura Prepon -
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons -
This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
Oscar Wilde -
I felt after I left prison in England that maybe there was a slim chance I could put my life back on track and have a career.
Gary Glitter -
You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
Jay-Z -
Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
Tony Hillerman -
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.
Oswald Chambers -
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my life.
R. A. Salvatore -
I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.
Kelly Clarkson -
as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
William S. Burroughs