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• Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

  Austin O'Malley

  Evil, Desire, Shame

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• You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.

  Christopher Doyle

  Giving, Lenses, Three

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

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• Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Reading, Struggle, Book

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Government, Cells

  "Jerry Brown, on Corporations and Jobs, We the People Radio Network archives". December 1995/January 1996.

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• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Police

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• All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

  Natasha Leggero

  Rapper, Jail Time, Done

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 1, 2015.

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Tails

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• Only poor people go to jail.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Poor, Poor People

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• If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Badass

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip.

  Ned Sublette

  Rip, Sound, Liberated

  Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.472, Chicago Review Press

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• The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

  Curtis Jackson

  Excuse, Broke, Being Broke

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• People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

  Pete Earley

  Real, People, Sick

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life And Love, Heart, Phones

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• Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

  Simon McKeon

  Leadership, Dream, Business

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• In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Love You, Recovery

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Philosophical, Taken, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.391

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• I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gun, Thinking, Should Have

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• Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

  Russell Brand

  Addiction, Rehab, Serious

  "Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2011.

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Law, Practice, Government

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• The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

  Wavy Gravy

  Society, Liberty, Earth

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• I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Growing Up, Dad

  "Musician Chris Isaak". "Travis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

  George MacDonald

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Blood, May

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• I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Soul, Coward, Sycophants

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Kings, Littles

  Bob Dylan (2017). “Lyrics 1961 - 2012: Nouvelle édition augmentée”, p.349, Fayard

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