Locked Up Quotes
121 quotes by 116 authors
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When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect…
— Drew Barrymore
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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We know, deep down inside, it's wrong! There's nothing you can say to ever make it right! Killing is killing, no matter how you slice…
— Ronald Richter
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
— Marianne Williamson
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I'm kind of speaking for the females, ... what's in our mind if we could get revenge, what it would be like. Not to say…
— Missy Elliot
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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
— Pamela Stephenson
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In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
— David Foster
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Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison…
— Wesley Snipes
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They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up…
— Karl Pilkington
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I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his…
— Piper Kerman
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One of the most difficult situations on which my country goes through, has to do with the political and economical aspects, but that it's because…
— Monica Spear
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I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976.…
— Mike Tyson
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Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to…
— Dave McKean
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The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
— Tom Stoppard
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in…
— Aaron Swartz
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People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege…
— Sean Hannity
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I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she…
— Louie Gohmert
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