Arrested Quotes - Page 5

• He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

  Aminu Kano

  Party, Hero, Resistance

  Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

  Olivia Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Healthy

  "Olivia Wilde Finalizes Divorce". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance.

  Jackson Pollock

  Memories, Space, Energy

  "Abstract Expressionism (World of Art)". Book by David Anfam, p. 121, 1990.

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• There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.

  Paul Kagame

  Running, Men, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death. Postal workers who get arrested, they have mental problems. You know what? When you're dead you don't have a mental problem. If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

  Gene Simmons

  Kids, People, Ems

  Interview with Tim Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".

  Immortal Technique

  Jail, People, Waiting

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Views, Law, Jail

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• It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Boys, Rocks, Miami

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.

  Alice Nutter

  Albums, Finals, Down And

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• And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

  Steve Wozniak

  Russia, People, Secret

  "Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Blasts NSA Amid Rumors Steve Jobs Resisted PRISM Program" by Betsy Isaacson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Playboys' was an authentic junkie record. Art Pepper was just out of jail, Chet was arrested a week after the session, and piano player Carl Perkins would die two years later. When the record was recorded I was behind bars myself. In 1955 I was caught with narcotics and had to serve almost five years. Luckily, I was allowed to keep my saxophone in the cell, and I composed a lot during the time. They had to come fetch the music for Playboys from jail.

  Jimmy Heath

  Art, Player, Cells

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• Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Successful, Development, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• [Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.

  James Toback

  Sweet, Real, Being Single

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• When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].

  Yasser Arafat

  Effort, Groups, Made

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

  Chris Hedges

  Children, White, Daddy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Kids, Texas

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• To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.

  Doyle Brunson

  Games, Worry, Police

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part I)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, mobile.pokerschoolonline.com. 2008.

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• Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

  John Leguizamo

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Resisting

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• I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.

  Invader

  Art, Real, Trouble

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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• I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Jobs, I Can

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• I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.

  Simon Bird

  Silly, Heart, Mean

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• Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.

  Scott Simon

  Gay, Cracks, Kind

  "Cuba Reacts To Fidel Castro's Death". Interview with Scott Simon, kccu.org. November 26, 2016.

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