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To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.
Joseph Brodsky
Book
Language
Country
Prison
Russia
Writer
Put
Name
Cover
His
Cell
Where
Door
Plain
Appears
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.
Lex Luger
Hope
Prison
Past
Few
Other
Ministry
Some
Give
Givers
Share
Mainly
Generous
Involved
Also
Builder
Match
Prisons
Go
Trying
Quite
Donors
Jails
Story
Them
Bridge
Based
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz
History
People
Prison
Society
Ideas
Always
Were
Itself
Burned
Proclaiming
Stake
Full
Who
Defended
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Philip Emeagwali
People
Made
Stronger
Prison
Adversities
Going
Being
Many
Homeless
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
Rand Paul
People
World
Prison
States
Those
Some
Rate
Highest
However
Them
Incarceration
Many
United
Deserve
United States
I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.
Remy Ma
Positive
Life
My Life
Prison
Type
System
Some
Consumed
Almost
Decade
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary.
Rose George
Relax
Job
Prison
Live
Difficult
Everything
House
Because
Accommodation
Refer
Salary
Ship
Get
Often
Just
Being
Where
Which
Your
Hard
Workplace
Away
Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible.
Sadiq Khan
People
Prison
Out
Without
Oversee
Staff
Irresponsible
Rehabilitation
Professional
Letting
I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
Suge Knight
Time
Me
Heart
Police
Walk
Mind
Haters
Free
Prison
Down
Gangsta
Every
Every Time
More
Doing
Than
Them
Street
Streets
Need
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Suge Knight
You
Prison
See
Get
Loves
Really
Who
Chance
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.
Thomas Sowell
You
People
Prison
Other
Bites
Unarmed
Beating
Like
Him
Sound
Sound Bites
Bloody
Child
Shooting
Send
Media
Basis
Imagine
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.
Val Kilmer
Change
Better
Prison
Criminals
System
Out
Citizens
Rats
Like
Making
Going
Them
Breeding
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
Father
Prison
State
Occupied
Am
Expert
Electricity
Chair
Applied
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
Waiting
Crime
Men
Three
Prison
Year
Other
Seven
Punishment
Locked
Locked Up
Russia
Years
Up
List
Homosexuality
At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Food
Day
Nature
Will
Prison
Sick
Gave
Final
Savior
Our
Inquire
Those
Weak
Possessions
Hungry
Visited
About
Drink
He
Material
Fame
Ask
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow
You
Honor
Will
Bitterness
Wish
Prison
Enron
Punishment
I Wish
About
Could
Accept
Without
Understand
Impose
Undo
Did
Sentence
Your
Your Honor
Deserve
Serve
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
James Forman, Jr.
Man
Rights
Generation
Voting
Father
Black
Prison
Late
I Was Born
Civil
Born
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act
My Generation
More
Lifetime
1960s
Fair
Voting Rights
Likely
Housing
Go
His
Than
After
Then
Act
Twice
TV's a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.
Abby Lee Miller
People
Big
Prison
TV
Deal
Nonstop
Big Deal
Watch
Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
Adam Ant
Walk
Prison
Park
Mate
Being
Really
Compared
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
Adam Ross
Dreams
Marriage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Miserable
Prison
Difficult
Alike
Kind
Through
Periods
Escape
Anyone
Suffered
A friend of mine is chief of staff at a big prison in Georgia. Along with giving me a tour of the prison, she allowed me to meet inmates.
Adrienne C. Moore
Me
Giving
Big
Prison
Meet
Mine
Tour
Allowed
Along
She
Friend
Georgia
Chief
Staff
We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget about them. We have to remember that they are humans, and they have rights, and yes, they did wrong, but we all have one shot at doing wrong, you know?
Adrienne C. Moore
You
Rights
Remember
Prison
Think
Society
Side
Our
About
Push
Wrong
Know
Doing
Off
Scorn
Yes
Forget
Did
Them
Shot
Humans
I hated high school. It was a prison.
Alan Alda
School
Prison
High
Hated
High School
Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I did as a teenager.
Alan K. Simpson
Life
Wonderful
Stupid
Prison
Other
Teenager
Reckless
Some
Life Experiences
Rather
Having
Could
Almost
Longer
Years
Than
Wonderful Life
Senate
Did
Experiences
Sentence
Many
Served
Things
Serving
I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.
Alessandro Michele
Time
Fashion
Freedom
Impossible
Long
Long Time
Prison
Think
Rules
Has-Been
New
Without
Been
New Story
Story
Create
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
Alex Pettyfer
Time
You
Try
Prison
Paris
Johnny
Like
Go
Replicate
Move
Being
Depp
Then
Your
Actor
Serve
Career
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