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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  Will Rogers

  Sports, Offering, Politics

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• While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

  Theophilus London

  Cousin, Trying, Internet

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• As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

  Tom Peters

  Journey, Odds, Yarn

  Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com, November 5, 2010.

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dirty, Boys

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• Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

  Edwin Moses

  Children, Teenage, Pregnancy

  "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

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• At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.

  Portia de Rossi

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sound, Band, Four

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• All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, Splits, Fool

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.186, Taylor & Francis

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• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Dirty, Past, Voice

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Use, Spirit, Youth

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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• If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Empowering, Ifs

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• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Favour, Refrain, Boast

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

  Page Hamilton

  College, Band, Four

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Gratitude, Forever, Culture

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• Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

  Ross Kemp

  Problem, Los Angeles, Areas

  "Ross. Gets all gun-ho. About gangland. In LA". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2008.

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• I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

  Ross Kemp

  Thinking, Fascination, Gangsters

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• There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

  Ross Kemp

  Difficult, Worst, Term

  Interview with Bertan Budak, uk.askmen.com.

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• It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process. When failure happens, that family you gathered regroups around you and gives you the fresh energy you're lacking.

  Matthew Jacobs

  Loyalty, Soulmate, Giving

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• I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Eight, Amnesty

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Cat, Kids

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

  Jose Parla

  Beautiful, Art, New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Home, Men, Community

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• Gangs exist when there are lots of empties in a person, in family, in community. It points out how we need to do more to bring real art, passions, teachings, caring, and resources into the emptiness of young peoples' lives.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Art, Real, Teaching

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• If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Meaningful, Art, Creativity

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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