quotes about Inmates
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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
-- Clifford Irving -
I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.
-- Danny Trejo -
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
-- Eric SchlosserSource : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
-- Ja Rule -
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
-- James Bryant ConantSource : 1950 Of Washington. Letter to Bernard Baruch, Feb. Quoted in James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).
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Changi became my university instead of my prison. ... Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.
-- James ClavellSource : "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1994.
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The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.
-- Jill JohnstonSource : Jill Johnston (1985). “Paper daughter”, Random House Incorporated
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Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
-- Joanne GreenbergSource : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan
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Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
-- John Grisham -
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
-- Julie Burchill -
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
-- Laurie Notaro -
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
-- Wentworth Miller -
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Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
-- Laurence Stallings