Gangsters Quotes - Page 4

• If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

  Bill Engvall

  Mother, School, Pants

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• Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

  Robert Pattinson

  Believe, Play, People

  "Robert Pattinson Says His Character In ‘Bel Ami’ Is a “Shit” & Film Will Be Hard To Market" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. March 30, 2011.

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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  Orson Welles

  Hollywood, Invention

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Kids, Snitch

  "Stop Snitchin'". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. April 22, 2007.

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• No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Reason

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

  Sergio Leone

  Virginia, Example, Lovers

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

  Quincy Jones

  Games, Profitable

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• I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

  Ted Nugent

  America, Office, Community

  "Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent Says "Subhuman Mongrel" President Obama Should Be Convicted Of Treason" by Timothy Johnson, www.mediamatters.org. January 21, 2014.

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• 50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Names, Metaphor, Projects

  Source: www.daveyd.com

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• When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Live Life, Kids, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

  Graham King

  Scripts, Gangster Movie, Genre

  Source: collider.com

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• What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Sharks, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Men, Dutch, Translate

  Source: collider.com

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• Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

  Bob Dylan

  School, Church, Politics

  Song: When You Gonna Wake Up ?, Album: Slow Train Coming

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• Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

  Stephen King

  Cat, Animal, Fire

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 30, 2013

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• Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

  Jocko Henderson

  Lying, Believe, Writing

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• An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

  Jacques Audiard

  Mindset, Remove

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I could kill Vino for all this doping crap. Strangle him slowly with piano wire just like they do in the Italian gangster movies. I bet I could get Aru to buy the wire.

  Vincenzo Nibali

  Italian, Cycling, Piano

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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Thinking, Games

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• Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.

  John Green

  Running, Real, Causes

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• I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.

  Lil Boosie

  Play, Comedian, Firsts

  Source: djbooth.net

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• What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Stones, Frogs

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.44, Random House

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• We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hunting, Law

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.187, Bantam

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