Gang Quotes

• Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

  

  Page Hamilton
  • College
  • Band
  • Four

• The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Business
  • Political

• When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • Important
  • Style
  • Dancing

• We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Culture

• All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Fool
  • Gang

• We've all aged some, but I just did, this past summer, another Rockford Files movie with the whole gang out there, Joe Santos and everybody else.

  

  Tom Atkins
  • Movie
  • Gang
  • Aged

• We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Real
  • War
  • Fighting

• I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Great
  • Family
  • Black

• When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

  

  Jason Mewes
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Serious

• If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Gang

• The banks refused to deal with us, and they are still refusing, because of American gang-like actions.

  

  Ismail Haniyeh
  • Actions
  • Gang
  • Banks

• I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Listening
  • Gang

• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • Gang

• When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Landlord

• Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Gang

• I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Brother
  • My Life
  • Position

• Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

  

  George Gilder
  • Children
  • School
  • Boys

• I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.

  

  Billy the Kid
  • Leader
  • Gang

• Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Scary
  • Gang

• Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Loyalty
  • Benefit
  • Lack

• I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.

  

  Ben Eine
  • London
  • Gang
  • Graffiti

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