Gang Quotes - Page 3

• Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Past, Political

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• A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.

  Demetri Martin

  Names, Guy, Would Be

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2012

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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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• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Character

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

  Vincente Minnelli

  New York, Dancing, Style

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

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• A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

  Don Marquis

  Country, Literature, Should

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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• A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

  Ezra Pound

  Sound, Loathing, Instinct

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• God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

  Mother Jones

  Thieves, Almighty, Made

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 125), April 30, 2012.

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• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

  Emily Mortimer

  Drinking, School, Technology

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment-a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of man’s nature—is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Effort, Mind

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader 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. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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• It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  May, Gypsy, Tomorrow

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• Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Men, Idiot, Chains

  "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.

  Mark Krikorian

  Thinking, Focus, Drug

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

  Patrick Grant

  Fashion, Wish, Rawness

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.

  Adam Beach

  Mother, Hurt, Growing Up

  "‘Diablo’ Interview: Adam Beach". Interview with Andrew Hawkins, chud.com. January 9, 2016.

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• So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Writing, Men, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can't totally talk about why we divide, but... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.

  Jeremy Renner

  Fun, Fighting, Knowing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.

  Steve Diggle

  Towns, Lasts, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

  Derek Ridgers

  Good Life, Life Lesson, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But lots of emerging racial tensions in California have nothing to do with whites: Filipinos and Samoans are fighting it out in San Francisco high schools. Merced is becoming majority Mexican and Cambodian. They may be fighting in gangs right now, but I bet they are also learning each other's language.

  Richard Rodriguez

  School, Fighting, California

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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