Arrested Quotes

• Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

  Tim Robbins

  Mean, Law, Unjust

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• I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

  David Johansen

  Memphis, Too Much, Stage

  "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.

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• In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Political, Reason, Poland

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blow, Men, Virginia

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• I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

  Charles Barkley

  Letters, Bigs

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• I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.

  Zach Braff

  Gob, Want, Matter

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• My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, Stills, Ifs

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• [for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.

  Franco Frattini

  Country, Italian, Simple

  Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.

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• You do what you love, or you get arrested.

  Lou Reed

  What You Love

  Lou Reed (2015). “Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.95, Melville House

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• Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

  Calista Flockhart

  Depression, Ally Mcbeal, Don't Change

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Madness

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

  Junot Diaz

  Should

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• Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

  Jo Bonner

  Justice, September 11, Ongoing

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• Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.

  Dave Eggers

  Christian, Men, White Man

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• Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, War, Development

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• I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

  Tim Meadows

  Gun, Chicago, Cop

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• I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Character, People, Different

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• A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs.

  John Cena

  Artist, Gun, Drug

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• Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

  Terry Hayes

  Planning, Murder

  Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Communication, Lightning, Genius

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24

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• I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.

  Michael C. Hall

  Memories, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

  Foxy Brown

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• There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, William Kozlenko (1942). “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time”, New York : Crown Publishers

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