Thug Quotes - Page 8

• When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

  Phil Daniels

  Kids, Leather Jackets, Would Be

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• There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

  John McCain

  Country, Cities, Kgb

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Leather Jackets, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

  Muhammad Ali

  Winning, Names, Clay

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• If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

  Christine Pelosi

  Morning, Safety, Rifles

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• We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.

  Donna Brazile

  Victim, Institutions, Cybercrime

  "'This Week' Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulo, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in [Vladimir] Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  America, United States, Defense

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Cities

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!

  Steve Clevenger

  Gun, People, Black

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

  Bruce Schneier

  Believe, Tsa, Drunk

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• The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Careers, Political, President

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.

  L. Neil Smith

  Stupid, White, America

  "A Little Austrian Flea". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 01, 2009.

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• Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

  Lewis Mumford

  Blessing, People, Gossip

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.301, University of Chicago Press

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• These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
  Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
  Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
  Start blastin'...now a new cat is executive chief.

  Talib Kweli

  Real, Rap, Cat

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• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Suicide, Teenager

  "Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Basketball, Team, Stupid

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• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  Quincy Jones

  Color, Car, Special

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• There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

  Jeff Merkley

  Police, Corruption, Enormous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

  Tony Blair

  War, Reality, British Soldiers

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Six, Goons

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• Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Baby, Husband

  Kristin Cashore (2008). “Graceling”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  Interview with Vince Aletti for Aperture Magazine, Summer 1999.

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• Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

  Sloane Crosley

  Air, Tree, Mind

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.47, Penguin

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• When the entertainers of the right aren’t declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they’re pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call “the Chicago way.”

  Thomas Frank

  Wings, President, Way

  "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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