Shoplifting Quotes

• A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reading, Pennsylvania, Lawyer

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• Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!

  Wayne Campbell

  Country, Punishment

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• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Rebecca Miller

  Beach, Art, Drinking

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• Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Mind, Bending

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• I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I’m corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody’s got to do it.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Skills, Climbing, Self

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

  Victoria Wood

  Party, People, Luck

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• I got caught shoplifting, which is not good. I was stealing for this boy that I went with at the time, and I ended up getting a three-month punishment.

  Dreezy

  Boys, Punishment, Three

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Done, Stealing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

  James Franco

  Drinking, Drunk, Graffiti

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dirty, Boys

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• I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

  Danica McKellar

  Movie, Thinking, Two

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