quotes about Thug
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I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies
-- Akinyele -
A thug only understands you when you speak his language
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
He called her a MILF, which must be offensive because Miss Castle called him a thug and sent hit out of the room. Gabe, what is a MILF?â€- Bethany
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
-- Alfred Molina -
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Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
-- Ali KhameneiSource : "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
-- Ann Voskamp -
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
-- ASAP Rocky -
This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
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When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.
-- Ayn Rand -
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals.
-- Bryan FischerSource : "AFA’s Fischer Outdoes Himself". www.rightwingwatch.org. May 25, 2010.
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If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?
-- Christine Pelosi -
I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.
-- David Adams RichardsSource : David Adams Richards (2002). “Mercy Among the Children: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
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Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.
-- Gary D. Schmidt -
But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.
-- Greg BearSource : Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK
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New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.
-- Henry Miller -
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
-- Ian Mckellen -
I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I’d be ripe to play a supervillain’s evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
-- Ilona Andrews -
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The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
-- Jeremy Renner -
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.
-- John Pugsley -
We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.
-- Jonah -
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Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.
-- Jonathan Bowden -
A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.
-- Kristin CashoreSource : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.
-- KRS-One -
Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.
-- KRS-One -
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I do know enough about economics and so do you to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.
-- L. Neil Smith -
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.
-- Lewis MumfordSource : Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.301, University of Chicago Press
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It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
-- Luke Treadaway -
That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.
-- Machine Gun Kelly -
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Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.
-- Marv Albert -
I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.
-- Michael K. WilliamsSource : "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.
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Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
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It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
-- Mos Def -
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
-- Muhammad Ali -
But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
-- Nas -
But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid Before my numbers called, historys made Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame? Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.
-- Nas -
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I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.
-- Nicolas Sarkozy -
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?
-- Pauline Kael -
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
-- Quincy Jones -
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
-- Ralph Steadman -
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Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.
-- Randall Robinson -
The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.
-- Richard K. MorganSource : Richard K. Morgan (2007). “Thirteen”, p.245, Del Rey
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But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug? I know some thugs and they know I'm the farthest thing from a thug.
-- Richard Sherman -
You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
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A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.
-- S.M. StirlingSource : Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written, July 7, 2000.
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
-- Sade Adu -
The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.
-- Sarah Palin -
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We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally.
-- Scott McClellan -
I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.
-- Sean Price -
MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot, Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the same. I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio, Same scenes in the video, monotonous material. ...Y'all don't hear me though: These record labels slang our tapes like dope. You can be next in line and signed, and still be writing rhymes and broke.
-- Stic.man -
For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
-- Suge KnightSource : "Mutha knows best" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.
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I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.
-- The Notorious B.I.G. -
Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.
-- The Notorious B.I.G. -
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
-- Thomas FrankSource : "The Real Chicago Way" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.
-- Thomas Pogge -
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Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
-- Tony Snow -
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.
-- Trick Daddy -
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
-- Trick DaddySource : Trick Daddy, Peter Bailey (2010). “Magic City: Trials of a Native Son”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
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When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
-- Tupac Shakur -
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No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
-- Tupac Shakur -
I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
-- Tupac Shakur -
If you fall stand tall and come back for more.
-- Tupac Shakur -
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A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!
-- Vinnie Paz -
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
-- Willard GaylinSource : Willard Gaylin (1982). “The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice”, Simon & Schuster
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There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in [Vladimir] Putin's defense of his cronyism. There's no moral equivalency there.
-- Benjamin E. SasseSource : Source: www.sfgate.com
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When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
-- Phil Daniels -
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(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.
-- Stephanie Rawlings-Blake -
Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!
-- Steve Clevenger -
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.
-- William Henry O'Connell -
Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
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Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see
-- Fat Joe -
Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.
-- Ronald ReaganSource : "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan".
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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
-- Rufus Jones -
When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.
-- Thomas JonesSource : "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.
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Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.
-- Timothy Miller -
What doesn’t kill me can only make me stronger
-- Kid InkSource : Song: Hell and Back, Album: Up & Away, 2012