quotes about Mafia
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
-- Barbara Amiel -
Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
-- David Chase -
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Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.
-- David Duke -
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
-- David Remnick -
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
-- David Remnick -
Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.
-- Davy Jones -
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The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
-- Davy Jones -
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
-- Davy Jones -
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.
-- Don Pendleton -
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
-- Douglas Horton -
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The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.
-- Gerald Celente -
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.
-- Gerald Celente -
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.
-- Giovanni Falcone -
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Cool thing about Fidel Castro is that the CIA and the mafia - which are both terrible organizations that tried to murder him again and again - haven't succeeded.
-- Ian SvenoniusSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
-- James GandolfiniSource : "Gandolfini Tires of Sopranos' Violence", abcnews.go.com.
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The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.
-- Jim Gaffigan -
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Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.
-- Jimmy HoffaSource : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.
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I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.
-- Joe Jonas -
Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .
-- John P. Wheeler III -
Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.
-- Johnny Kelly -
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It's like the mafia. Once you're in - your in. There's no getting out.
-- Kelly Slater -
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
-- Nelson DeMille -
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
-- Philip Zimbardo -
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
-- Sophie HannahSource : "Sophie Hannah: 'I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer. I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
-- Steve AllenSource : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
-- Tom FolsomSource : "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
-- Yelawolf -
The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."
-- Ernie Chambers -
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You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.
-- James Carafano -
Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.
-- Joe Arpaio -
I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.
-- John Lloyd Young -
The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.
-- Robert D. McFadden -
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I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion, even though it's also about power and control. In the case of Karachi, like so many other growing cities, it's also about land, mafias, gang activity.
-- Steve Inskeep -
Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.
-- Dom Irrera -
The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.
-- Robert LoggiaSource : Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.
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There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.
-- Stephen Holmes -
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When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
-- Josef Skvorecky