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“To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.”

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Author:John Florio

“We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.”

World Jail Shopping

Author:Douglas Coupland

“I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.”

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Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.”

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Author:Sukarno

“You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.”

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Author:Todd Akin

“But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.”

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Author:Polly Toynbee

“But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.”

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Author:James Belushi

“Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale

“I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.”

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Author:Don Cheadle

“I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.”

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Author:Duane Chapman

“Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.”

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Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.”

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Author:Andrew Gross

“Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.”

People Easier Jail

Author:Bernhard Goetz

“I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.”

Author:Chen Guangcheng

“Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.”

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Author:Joe Arpaio

“If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.”

Ifs Want Water Millions Stealing Jail Bottles Worth It

Author:Idris Elba

“And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.”

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Author:Dean Martin

“He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.”

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Author:Waylon Jennings

“It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”

Law Order Hell Cells Jail Hug Mama

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.”

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Author:Ray Davies

“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.”

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Author:Chris Isaak

“If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.”

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Author:Michael Isikoff

“You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.”

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Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays

Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays

“My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.”

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Author:Master P