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    Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

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    That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

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    That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.

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    The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

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    The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

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    The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

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    The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

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    The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

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    The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

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    The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

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    The fact is that, in prison, you can't just go and be locked up and serve your time. That's not an option. You get locked up, and then you're going to go through hell and, if you're lucky, you'll come out somewhat of a human being, but you're probably going to be beyond traumatized, for the rest of your life. That's ridiculous!

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    The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

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    The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

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    The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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    The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

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    The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

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    The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

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    the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

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    The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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    There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

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    The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.

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    The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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    There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

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    That show, The Sopranos put HBO on the map. So there I was - and then there I wasn't. Too bad. The same thing happened to me on Prison Break: I got the role of the governor on that, and then a handful of episodes later, I hanged myself.

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    The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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    The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

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    The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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    The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

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    The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

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    There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

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    There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

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    There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

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    There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

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    There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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    The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

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    The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

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    The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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    The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

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    The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

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    The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

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    The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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    The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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    There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

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    The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

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    They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.

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    The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

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    The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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    The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

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    They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

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    They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.