Arrested Quotes

• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

  Emma Goldman

  Jail, May, Silent

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

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• I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

  Rosa Parks

  Home, African American, Bus

  "The Torchbearer Rosa Parks" by Rita Dove, content.time.com. June 14, 1999.

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• What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?

  Stan Lee

  Taken, Years, People

  "'Nuff Said - An Interview with Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.

  Willie Gallacher

  Cities, Tough Times, Police

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• I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.

  Louis Daguerre

  Light, Flight

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• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

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• The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that.

  Drew Barrymore

  Ocean, Mind, Lobster

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• I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

  Mike DeWine

  Becoming, Illness, Violent

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I don't think there's a single child who's ever benefitted from being arrested for marijuana or for underage drinking; this does not solve the problem. It makes worse problems because a) it puts them into the system, and b) it gives them a potential criminal record to have to deal with and it can have consequences for school.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Children, Drinking, School

  Source: sojo.net

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Chicago, Baggage

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• This week a man was arrested for jumping over the White House fence and trying to spray paint a political message. If that guy really wanted to get a message to the president, he could have just written it in an email to literally anyone.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Jumping, White

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• You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Halt, Shots

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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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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• It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Doors, Careers

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• For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

  Trevor Paglen

  Photography, Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges

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