Jail Quotes
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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
Jonathan Swift
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Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.
Virginia Satir
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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.
Ava Gardner
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If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.
Michael Isikoff
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You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.
Carrie P. Meek
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.
Quentin Tarantino
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You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
Joanne Rowling
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For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
Erwin Rommel
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I had my back against the wall. He Gary Hinman said, I'm going to tell the police what you did to me. This guy is a drug dealer. He's playing the game. And if you're going to dance, you've got to pay the fiddler. You burn somebody, that's the way it is. I Stabbed him in the heart twice. He died immediately. Susan Atkins seemed to think, Oh what fun, how interesting. Susan Atkins is now a Jesus freak in jail. She gave five different testimonies and in one of them, she claimed she killed Hinman.
Bobby Beausoleil
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Tommy Chong
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Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.
Mike Tyson
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There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Were not only healthier but also less likely to report having been abused or neglected than a similar group whose mothers had not been visited. They also were more likely to have finished school, to have stayed out of jail, and to be working in well-paying jobs. Economists have calculated that every dollar invested in high-quality home visitation, day care, and preschool programs results in seven dollars of savings on welfare payments, health-care costs, substance-abuse treatment, and incarceration, plus higher tax revenues due to better-paying jobs.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.
Steve Jobs
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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
Benjamin Barber
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You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
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We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.
Edna Buchanan
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We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win.
Barrett Brown
