361 Prison Quotes for You to Enjoy

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison. Phil Daniels

Day Daughter Prison Released Born She Because Mandela After Her Ella

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. Philip Kaufman

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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on. Rachel Kushner

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I didn't have any look or any style in prison. Your footwear couldn't cost more than $50. You can't wear blue, orange, gray, any patterns, or you couldn't wear your hair down. There were just so many rules that coincided with your attire. Remy Ma

I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it's mandatory to get your GED if you don't have a high school diploma. Remy Ma

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When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person. Remy Ma

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On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts! Richard Branson

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute. Richard Cohen

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The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her. Richard LaGravenese

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I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates. Richard Linklater

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When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script. Robert Ben Garant

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Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom. Robert D. Hare

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I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall. Robert Gant

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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. Robert Smithson

Result Prison Control Out Some Fact Supporting Got Cultural End Up Artists In Fact Hold Which Them Apparatus Imagine

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't. Roger Ross Williams

Prison Odds Destiny Would Were End Up Escaped

The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison. Roger Ross Williams

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Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like. Rolf Harris

Art Prison Like Doing Room Really Tutor Hardship Assistant Basically

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three. Roseanne Barr

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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation. S. C. Gwynne

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Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly, is the right thing to do. Sally Yates

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