Jail Quotes - Page 13

• That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children, and I wouldn't even think of putting my hand in somebody's pocket or doing something stupid now.

  Black Rob

  Children, Stupid, Hate

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• I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

  Tupac Shakur

  Believe, Cells, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.

  Bocafloja

  Talking, Mtv, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

  Sean Hannity

  Children, Years, California

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.

  Sean Hannity

  Children, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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

  People, Waiting, Culture

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

  Mike Tyson

  Animal, Feelings, Mind

  "Earl Sweatshirt Interviews Mike Tyson, Discusses Odd Future, The Notebook, Fighting, More". Interview with Mike Tyson, pitchfork.com. December 17, 2014.

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• There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

  War, Russia, Cold

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• Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

  Carson McCullers

  Jesus, Would Be, Today

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, People, Lucky

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

  Delia Ephron

  Divorce, Fantastic, Should

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

  John Roecker

  People, Looks, Henry Kissinger

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fraud, Happened, Ifs

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• If you're white and you're rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you're poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

  Rand Paul

  White, Usa, Drug

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Cutting, People

  "An Interview With Pete Seeger In Beacon, NY". Interview with Pete Mason, nysmusic.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

  Christian Slater

  Results, Take Time

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

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• Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

  Jay Leno

  Paris, People, Upset

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• It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").

  Tom Bethell

  People, Support, Half

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• [for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.

  Franco Frattini

  Country, Italian, Simple

  Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.

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• I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

  Vladimir Putin

  Views, Pussy, Levels

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• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.

  Gary Glitter

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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

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• When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

  Paul Mooney

  Taken, Race, Saws

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• A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

  Zhuangzi

  Thieves, Petty, Nations

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• Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

  Charles Ferguson

  Years, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  "Charles Ferguson’s Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: ‘Inside Job’ Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance". www.huffingtonpost.com. Februrary 28, 2011.

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• I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, Law, Judging

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