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• My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, People, Giving

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• The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

  James Altucher

  Dream, American Dream, Marketing

  "10 Reasons You Have to Quit Your Job in 2014" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Marketing, Ifs

  Comment on reddit, www.reddit.com. November 29, 2008.

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• There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

  Tupac Shakur

  Volleyball, Religious, Sex

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• I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

  Aldrich Ames

  Running, Kgb, People

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• Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

  Marco Rubio

  Mean, Fighting, Class

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

  Narendra Modi

  Years, India, Needs

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• Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

  Eric Burdon

  Wine, Boys, Islands

  Eric Burdon, Jeff Marshall Craig (2002). “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood”, p.316, Da Capo Press

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• I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

  Steven Spielberg

  Divorce, Committed, Heard

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

  Robert Bryce

  Wind, Age, Modern

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• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  Gary Coleman

  Eye, Government, Wool

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• The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Children, Government, Abuse

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• Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

  Ben Stein

  Beautiful, Men, Years

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• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  Bill Ackman

  Opportunity, University Degrees, Fraud

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• I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.

  Annie Proulx

  Atmosphere, Suffering, Hustle

  "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.

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• My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

  St. Vincent

  Dad, Kids, Car

  "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Hackers, Site, Paypal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ghetto, Dope, Hands

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• I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.

  Richard Simmons

  Lying, Years, Names

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

  Donald Trump

  People, Climate, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

  Matt Groening

  Wine, Snakes, Owl

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• Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

  Dick Morris

  Energy, Pork, Doe

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• Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

  John Stossel

  Running, Government, Social

  "Madoff Is a Piker" by John Stossel, townhall.com. January 7, 2009.

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• You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.

  Sean Bean

  People, Paper, Facts

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Valentine, Men, My Boyfriend

  Source: www.esquire.com

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