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If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail.
Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
The fight to get a shield law barring the government from being able to jail journalists is itself a non-partisan battle.
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.
In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.
My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing, and that was my out.
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.
When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.
It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.
Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
I have never seen any BJP leader going to jail during the freedom struggle; it was only Congressmen who sacrificed for this country.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!
We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).
Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.