Prison Quotes
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
Neil Peart Rush
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Nadine Gordimer
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I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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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
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Valentino Rossi
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I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.
Mike Tyson
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Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
William Francis Buckley
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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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
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
Joyce Cary
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
Fernando Flores
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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.
Sally Yates
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
Mara Wilson
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I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
Lane Garrison
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We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.
Vladimir Lenin
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
Rand Paul
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
Taylor Schilling
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
Damian Lewis
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
Nawal El Saadawi
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We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.
Manning Marable
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I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.
Asif Ali Zardari