Pablo Escobar Quotes

• But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.

  Cliff Curtis

  Fun, Business, Liars

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• It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Past, People

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• [Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Talking, Phones, Lasts

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• I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mistake, Men, Years

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• I am not allowed to enter American territory simply because I was born the son of Pablo Escobar and apparently that implies that I inherit my father's crimes. Not that I want a visa now, I don't care anymore, I have been to the United States before.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Son, Care

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• It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the best he ever had.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Hate, Resorts, Difficult

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• I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context of his situation and the reason for his actions, for which only he is responsible for. I think it was very difficult for him to try to bring down the very criminal organization that he had created and by the time he wanted to stop, he was unable to.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Organization, Trying

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• Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Country, Son, Opportunity

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• I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Opportunity, Government

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• For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Violence, Stones, Path

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• I would argue with my father [Pablo Escobar] about his violent attitude and I would tell him to stop his violent ways and to think about peace as an alternative, especially given the many problems he was having. However, he would reply almost immediately by telling me "you are forgetting that the first bomb that exploded in Colombia was an attempt against you, your sister, and your mother - I did not invent narcoterrorism, narcoterrorism was first used against my family.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mother, Attitude, Father

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• I did not like [Pablo Escobar] actions because I did not think it was right to have bombs placed in a non-discriminatory fashion throughout the entire country.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Country, Fashion, Thinking

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• Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

  John Leguizamo

  Dark, Stories, Bizarre

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• It's the flip side of illegal success. This man [Pablo Escobar ] turned a small-time drug thing into a large industry. An international, successful industry. And he almost took a country, Columbia, he took it almost hostage, took over it. It was incredible.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Successful, Men

  "John Leguizamo on ‘The Infiltrator’, ‘John Wick 2′, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 15, 2016.

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• In reality, my father [Pablo Escobar ] always interrupted others to be with his family. My father's priority was always the family.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Reality, Priorities

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• I would go to the office to visit my father [Pablo Escobar] and regardless of who he was meeting, he would drop everything to receive me in his office. In the series, the priorities that my father demonstrates are completely inverted and untrue.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Office, Priorities

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• Throughout the series [Narcos], I appear younger and younger - I don't know why that is particular to Netflix, to show the evolution of Pablo Escobar's children in that manner.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Children, Netflix, Evolution

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• When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Years, Justice

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• In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Ideas, Appreciate

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• I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Violence

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• I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Men, People, Groups

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• [My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Hug, Stories

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