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• Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

  John Donne

  Motivational, World, Palaces

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Trying, Rotten, Yeah

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• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  Ed Koch

  Violence, Ifs

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• My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

  Gene Simmons

  Beautiful, Skins, Would Be

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, (NPR), February 4, 2002.

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• In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Feelings, Sitting

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• It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

  Sarah Polley

  Want, Littles, Actresses

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• Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

  Lil Wayne

  Wall, Locks, Spirit

  "Remembering Lil Wayne's Letters From Riker's Island" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2010.

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• If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

  Idris Elba

  Water, Bottles, Want

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• I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Education, School, Want

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• I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.

  Luther Campbell

  Fun, Night, Records

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• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

  Will Rogers

  Political Will, Independence, Politics

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

  Tupac Shakur

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

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• Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Want, Caught, Let Me

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• It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

  Sun Ra

  Brother, Men, Tragedy

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• I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

  Manute Bol

  Sea, Want, Tough

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• In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Want, Prison, Denied

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jail Time, Half, Months

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

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• Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Use, Ends

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

  Danny Sugerman

  Drug, Rooms, Privacy

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

  Andrew Young

  Dream, White, People

  "FRONTLINE" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Ideas, Freedom Of Speech

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

  Barry White

  Cadillacs, Tire, Stealing

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

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Army, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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• I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

  Jimmy Dean

  Men, Hands, Gloves

  "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.

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