Prison Quotes - Page 34

• Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

  Taylor Schilling

  Ears, Noise, Break

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• And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison.

  Taylor Schilling

  Light, Way, Intensity

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• And other people get the opportunity to leave prison, and then they do something to get put back in there because they can't actually function in society. It's really cool because you get to see all these different women, their backstories, where they come from, their upbringing and why they get to where they get to, and they're all completely different. It's really cool that you get to see all those storylines.

  Laura Prepon

  Opportunity, People, Different

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• When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.

  Laura Prepon

  Doors, Looks, Towels

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• We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books and articles. We are constantly emailing articles around the writers' room. We have dipped ourselves in prison culture and lore and media, and the experience and the people. We really want to be as informed as possible.

  Jenji Kohan

  Book, Media, People

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• Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7. It was too oppressive. So, we were like, "How can we get out? Let's see their lives, a little bit." That was really fun.

  Jenji Kohan

  Fun, Years, Want

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• The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

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• In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

  Burt Prelutsky

  California, Choices, Thieves

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• If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, People, Drug

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• People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Punishment, People, Population

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

  Henry Rollins

  America, People, Perfect

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• The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

  Henry Rollins

  Military, Kids, Criminals

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• Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison.
  The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something
  outside of the moment, we´re in prison.

  Stephen Levine

  Enlightenment, Moments, Seeking

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.77, Anchor

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• If you're drunk please don't drive. If you're on shrooms please don't think Walmart's a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Escaping, Drunk

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Were Not Meant To Be, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Better to build orphanages than prisons.

  James Cook

  Orphanage

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• According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.

  Chelsea Handler

  Rap, Feet, Guy

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• I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

  Greg Behrendt

  Imagine, Certain, Murderer

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• The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, War, Marijuana

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• You might be a redneck if you consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dad, Redneck, Might

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Why Not, Graves, Edges

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• It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Opportunity, Bars

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• Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Purpose, Horror, Mere

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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