Gang Quotes

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  The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Leader, Speed

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Borders, Rivals

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• But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

  LeBron James

  Sports, Drug, Way

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

  Snoop Dogg

  Football, Kids, Drug

  "Welcome to Britain, Mr Dogg: rapper is less gangsta, more pussycat, judge rules" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2008.

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• However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

  Bob Filner

  California, Statistics, Might

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• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Youth, Reactions

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• What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

  Michael Caine

  People, Opinion, Realizing

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

  Vivian Stanshall

  Thinking, Being Different, Sake

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• It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

  Albert Wynn

  Gang Members, Years, Aggravation

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• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

  Donnie Yen

  Growing Up, School, Two

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

  Drew Carey

  Humor, America, Alcohol

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1997.

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Thieves

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Powerful, Reading

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

  Bob Filner

  Cities, Population, Three

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• But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

  Thomas Keneally

  Fighting, Used, Brat

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• And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

  Bobby Scott

  Girl, Jobs, Home

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• I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

  Jason Mewes

  Would Be, Stories, Serious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  School, Leftovers, Wanted

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• From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

  Virginia Foxx

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

  David Wilkerson

  Miracle, Manhattan, Brooklyn

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• Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

  Tom Hayden

  Book, Taught, Courses

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• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  Sadie Frost

  Girl, Stars, War

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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