“The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.” PeopleCommunityChanceConditionsPoetAtmosphereGangMessiahMintMinneapolis Author:Nikki Jean
“When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight".” PartyHappenedElectionEightTeaGangDarlingTea PartyMarcos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm in a funny position: I've been in one band in my life and that was with my brother. As incredible as that has been, I feel like I'm missing out a little bit on being in a real rock band - or how I imagine being in a real rock band to be. It's like being in a street gang: you all wear the same leather jacket or whatever.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensRealBitsImagineStreetsRocksMissingPositionBrotherBandLittle BitIncrediblesMy BrotherGangJacketsLeatherRock BandsMissing OutLeather Jackets Author:Eleanor Friedberger
“I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.” MotherStreetsMembersSevenShelterHomelessGangPsychologistNew ZealandGang MembersGodmother Author:Tamaryn
“I can't totally talk about why we divide, but... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.” KnowsI CanTwoTodayFightingFunInterestingKnowingSceneDividesGangPinnacle Author:Jeremy Renner
“But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.” MaySchoolFightingLanguageBecomingRight NowHigh SchoolMajorityCaliforniaTensionGangMexicanSan FranciscoEmergingFilipinoRacial Tension Author:Richard Rodriguez
“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"” MindFirstsMeanTwoLanguageCitiesFiveCenturyThousandLimitsMembersSixTwentiesMovedCaughtEastTinyMilesBlockBordersVillageGangMexicanGhettoThousand MilesGrannyGang Members Author:Richard Rodriguez
“My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.” DifferentMotherFatherStreetsCrimeDiedGangFather DiedMother DiedMy Father DiedDifferent RoadsCommitting Crimes Author:Ice T
“God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.” MadeThievesAlmightyGang Author:Mother Jones
“All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.” PeopleWayWantHas BeensBookSoulCountryStatesBlackCommunityViolenceInvolvedPeriodsVoteClintonSouthCastsI RealizedSpokesGangJerseyLatinoRidersNew JerseyOrganizerCaucusSacramentoNewarkGang Violence Author:Tom Hayden
“I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.” LittlesRunningNightTalkingStreetsSittingBoxingGangMarbleSpotlightNight Time Author:Muhammad Ali
“I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.” YearsKidsFilmFatherDirectorsSilentProducersGiantsIntroducingGangHardyLaurelsRoachesSilent Movies Author:Billy Crystal
“I can definitely tell you what viewers can expect from Season 2 [of 'Zoo']. It picks up right where Season 1 left off - the gang facing this wall of animals charging at a car. And so, it'll be satisfying in that way. The cliffhanger in Season 1 just kind of went to black screen. It picks up right where that left off. And from there on, the stakes just continue to rise in the season, and I think it's really adrenaline-filled.” ThinkingWayKindI CanLeftBlackAnimalCarWallPicksSeasonsFilledScreensSatisfyingStakesViewersGangAdrenalineZoosChargingCliffhanger Author:James Wolk
“Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.” HumorPayCrimeDrugProfitAlcoholCriminalsViolentStealingWarfareViciousAddictGangAlcoholicsProhibitionGet MoneyViolent CrimesDrug ProhibitionMarijuana Prohibition Author:Michael Badnarik
“Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.” KindStillsFourInfluenceChangedYouthCollegeTasteBandGang Author:Page Hamilton
“I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.” PeopleKnowsStillsSeemsAgeRememberGirlCoursesDifficultDealsHugeGradesBeing RealGangJuniorsJunior HighSeventh Grade Author:Sofia Coppola
“As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may be one of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group that in the Senate some years ago passed a bill that said border security. It said thousands of new border guards to deal with the porous border. It talked about a pathway to legalization for the 11 or 12 million undocumented that live in this country.” IfsThinkingYearsMayHas BeensSaidCountryMatterFactsDealsMillionsGroupsSecurityTrumpYears AgoBillsPressesEightBordersSenateMexicoConferencesGangCould Have BeenPathwaysMatter Of FactBipartisanPress ConferencesBorder Security Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.” YearsHas BeensSeemsThreeWrittenYears AgoEightComing OutThree YearsGangCould Have Been Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.” LongInspirationMotivationTechnologyDrugMembersPolicePhonesCellsOfficersGangCell PhoneDealerPolice OfficerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Marc Goodman
“It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem.” PeopleIfsWantGivingProblemWould BeEnergyNumbersStepsOpinionFocusSolveBarackAnalysisAccurateGang Author:Nipsey Hussle
“As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.” YoungSituationEnvironmentStreetsEffectsMembersSurvivalWake UpInstinctGangOur EnvironmentAdaptedSurvival InstinctGang Members Author:Nipsey Hussle
“The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.” WayCompareAggressionBrutalGang Author:Jane Goodall
“One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.” CultureForgetOne ThingUnitsGangMexicanFamily Unit Author:Nick Nolte
“I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."” UsedActorsStarsFlowTheaterPhrasesGangHarvardCampus Author:John Lithgow
“Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.” PeopleLooksSaidCultureDogInvolvedDressesGangFlatteringBlindersSnoop Dog Author:Steven Knight
“Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.” PeopleIfsTwoFightingHouseWinningTalkingCasesLosingAreasArmyTerroristTerritoryGangWinning And LosingFighting On Author:Bashar al-Assad
“If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.” IfsHelpingMotherBitsSickOur FamilyThreateningGangFey Author:Carrie Fisher
“Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.” IfsShouldFirstsWarBoastGangIlliteratePsychopath Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.” KnowsBodyActionCompanyMilitaryProgramCongressEightDefenseCampaignsCorporationsChairsBuriedGangDonationContractorCovert Author:Edward Snowden
“Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.” IfsWritingHandsCarePoliticalGuyOrderNamesFateRightsWrittenDoorsIndustryBillsBarackHealth CareCorporatePreservesOppositionFriendlyCheeksWomens RightsGangPledgeMaxBrassWadeKnucklesPunchingRevolvingSpitefulRoe V WadeFinanciersSurlyRevolving Doors Author:Bill Moyers
“I was part of the gang of eight in the house in 2013 that was working on comprehensive immigration reform. We talked a lot about border security and what was effective and what was not. Walls are not effective when you`re out in the desert and you don`t need them.” NeedsHouseSecurityWallEightImmigrationReformDesertBordersGangComprehensiveImmigration ReformBorder Security Author:John Yarmuth
“The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact, "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow, and "True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey.” BookFactsHistoricalBelovedRelevantPeterGangHistorical FactsRagtime Author:Laila Lalami
“I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.” PeopleHappensKidsProcessCommunitySawsEventsGrewDrugWake UpSticksSeriesGangDealerDrug Dealers Author:Michael K. Williams
“It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem. But I don't feel like zero tolerance, strict laws, locking everybody up is a viable means to stop that problem.” PeopleIfsWantGivingFeelsMeanProblemWould BeLawEnergyNumbersStepsOpinionFocusSolveToleranceBarackAnalysisZeroAccurateStrictGangZero ToleranceStrict Laws Author:Nipsey Hussle
“We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark.” PeopleStatesDarkPartyMistakeClearFourCrimeCrisisGood ThingsVery GoodSavedChineseDistinctionMore TimeGangChairmanMaoChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.” ShouldStillsHateFourInfluenceCrimeMovementMassIllPopulationSquaresRidingCentsGangAprilChairmanPassed AwayUnderratedMaoChairman MaoTiananmen Square Author:Deng Xiaoping
“It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.” ShouldDoneWishFourBuiltDiedRemainsInstanceHallsConstructionAshesGangMemorialChairmanTombsThings DoneInconsistentMaoChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.” PeopleMillionsFourSentencesHarmGang Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Bill Clinton kept funding Star Wars. He took the biggest military budget to Congress in history. He routinely bombed Iraq, and he kept the barbaric sanctions in place. He's really played his part. The George W. Bush gang has taken it just a little further.” LittlesWarStarsTakenMilitaryBillsClintonCongressIraqBudgetsGangFundingSanctionsBarbaricMilitary Budget Author:John Pilger
“I made reference continuously to the killings, the death, the life taken by all of these narcotrafficking gangs and human smugglers. I spoke of this problem as one of the wounds that Mexico suffers. It's a great pain that I'm taking, because this nation [Mexicans] doesn't deserve a drama like this one.” HumansMadeProblemPainSufferingNationsTakenDramaDeserveKillingWoundsSpokesMexicoGangSmugglers Author:Pope Francis
“What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.” MenWantBelieveWellsCountryStatesAmericaForceUnitedUnited StatesSpecialMilitaryBraveryFilledRageDamnThreatenedNavyGangDisbeliefSealsToughnessManlinessSpecial ForcesUnited States MilitaryNavy SealRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The people that are really from the hood - and I'm raising my hand right now, you can't see that - we wanna get out the hood. We don't want to go back. We don't want to gang bang, we don't wanna do none of that. We wanna make it out! Like Jay Z did. We should be billionaires and owning businesses and stuff like that.” PeopleWantShouldHandsStuffRight NowGangBangsBillionaireHood Author:Kevin McCall
“I'm a kid from Minnesota. I like seeing movie stars! So I'm there at The ivy, I've got my shrimp, Eddie Murphy comes in with his gang. I said to the waiter, as any good Midwestern boy would, "Hey, put Eddie's check on my American Express card, but don't tell him that I did it 'til I'm gone." Next day I got a call from manager who said, "Eddie's doing a movie, he was very impressed that you bought him lunch." So remember: sometimes buying people lunch can really work out well for you.” PeopleSometimesKidsRememberBoysWork OutMovie StarGangWaiterMurphy Author:Louie Anderson
“I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion, even though it's also about power and control. In the case of Karachi, like so many other growing cities, it's also about land, mafias, gang activity.” EnoughIslamTerrorismGangMafia Author:Steve Inskeep
“No one's quite figured out how to make the images come to the viewer. I guess if they put it on a conveyor belt, you could stand in one place like at sushi restaurants. That could be a next generation of museums. Someone should try that. I think ideally you want to have a contemplative space for the viewer. And shuffling around like a chain gang does work against that.” ThinkingTryingGangNext GenerationContemplative Author:David Salle
“We need to start looking at what we can do as a society to set up men like Sir Lance and Ty and even the young man over the gang for success because it's a system that's broken, not just the actions of the individual.” MenActionIndividualBrokenGang Author:Daniel Beaty
“Where my earlier works, what sets them apart is that I didn't need approval and I didn't need permission from anyone because I wasn't being paid. So, to me, I was allowed the freedom, the total freedom to just communicate how I wanted to communicate and my whole level of perspective was to communicate to the barrios, communicate to the gangs and communicate to the people that frequent the thoroughfares that were populated by these gangs and by this life style.” PeopleStylePerspectiveCommunicateGangLife Style Author:Willie Herron
“Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.” ChildrenProblemFallShadowTerrorismPornographyGang Author:James Comey