Capone Quotes

• Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

  Ice Cube

  Gangsta, Live Your Life, Want

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• Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

  Al Capone

  Fall, Cat, Marine

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• Putin is like Al Capone.

  Garry Kasparov

  Als, Putin

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• I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

  Robert Stack

  Lucky, Arms, Als

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

  Robert Stack

  Being Sad, Promise, Als

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• How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

  Method Man

  Gay, Als, Gangsters

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• Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Pyramids, Design, Als

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• I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga, and opening for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, etc.

  Wendy Starland

  Running, Artist, White

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.

  Don Rickles

  Uncles, Latin, Names

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

  Oscar Levant

  Compassion, Als, Young

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

  Douglas Adams

  Islands, Would Be, Als

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Knives, Want

  "Fictional character: Jim Malone". "The Untouchables", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

  Jack Kirby

  Growing Up, Als, Crooks

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Powerful, Reading

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

  Dale Carnegie

  Humility, People, Mind

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• So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone
  And defecating on your microphone.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Als, Microphones

  "Song: 'Ready or Not'". 1996.

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• I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Cities

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Marine, Cities, Honor

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• In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.

  Jonathan Eig

  Successful, Thinking, Creating

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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  David Remnick

  Russia, Als, Capitalism

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