Jail Quotes - Page 11

• Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.

  John Starks

  Brother, Jail Time, Want

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Also to have someone tell you when you can come and go. When I was faced with that decision, I just drew back on all my past decisions and especially my time in jail that this isn't the road I want to go down. That's why I really made a commitment towards school.

  John Starks

  School, Commitment, Past

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I was bullied by my siblings and cousins, so make-believe was a way in which I could be in charge. When I was like 10 and my sister was about five, I convinced her that she was going to jail because she used a bad word. The doorbell happened to ring, and I told her it was the police. I made her pack her bags. She was crying, and then I said to her, "I forgive you, and I'm gonna tell the cop to go away." Then, of course, she loved me. It was terrible - she still remembers it. I had a sordid sense of humor.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Cousin, Sibling, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had a very dear friend of mine, ton of potential, and he fell ill with bipolar disorder. And he was put in the penal system. And that was just adding fuel to the fire. He got worse. He came out and he's never been the same since. He can't seem to get his life back. And this is a man who could have had Hollywood in the palm of his hand. A lot of my inspiration and aspirations for wanting to be an actor, I owe to him. Between the disorder and him being put in jail, it just snuffed all of that away from him.

  Michael K. Williams

  Inspiration, Men, Fire

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

  David Duchovny

  Reading, Writing, Revision

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Children, Dope, Doors

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever. So I don't know how that got in my gene pool, but it did.

  Dan Amboyer

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives. It is viewed as "normal" in ghetto communities to go to prison or jail.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't know if that comes in a number, I don't know if that comes in a plaque, I don't know what it is. If I can keep me and the crew around me happy, stable, and out of jail, then we good.

  Pusha T

  Numbers, Crew, Knows

  Source: theneptunes.org

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• Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

  Barack Obama

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• Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap Thigh Master. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that?

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Should Have, Pieces

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• I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.

  Andrew Bogut

  Sports, Workout, Morning

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• I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Religious, Kindness, Compassion

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• I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

  Will Ferrell

  My Family, Closets, Built

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• Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

  Kevin Gates

  Hands, Streets, Hand In Hand

  "Question in the Form of an Answer: An Interview with Kevin Gates". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.passionweiss.com. February 7, 2013.

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• One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

  Vince Staples

  Crazy, People, Bail

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

  Rick Ross

  Rest Of Your Life, Cocaine, Selling

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.

  Rick Ross

  Drug, Magic, Wish

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

  Malcolm X

  Talking, Long, Black

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

  Yvette Clarke

  Kings, Luther, Spokes

  "Fighting to Fulfill 'The Dream'” by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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• You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

  Huey Newton

  Running, Country, Fighting

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• Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

  Judith Viorst

  Love You, Being In Love, Love Is

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• [Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friendship, Affair, Easy

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• Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Married, Prison, Drawbacks

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