Columbia Quote by John Leguizamo
![“It's the flip side of illegal success. This man [Pablo Escobar ] turned a small-time drug thing into a large industry. An international, successful industry. And he almost took a country, Columbia, he took it almost hostage, took over it. It was incredible.” quote by John Leguizamo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d9d/john-leguizamo-3025_columbia_it-s-the-flip-side-of-illegal-success-th_2978094.jpg)
“It's the flip side of illegal success. This man [Pablo Escobar ] turned a small-time drug thing into a large industry. An international, successful industry. And he almost took a country, Columbia, he took it almost hostage, took over it. It was incredible.”
![“I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.” quote by Juan Pablo Escobar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cb/juan-pablo-escobar-11709_activity_i-think-pablo-escobar-wasted-an-incredib_2230994.jpg)
![“Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.” quote by Juan Pablo Escobar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/54f/juan-pablo-escobar-11709_amends_sadly-pablo-escobar-ended-up-throwing-aw_127586.jpg)
![“I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.” quote by Juan Pablo Escobar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/73a/juan-pablo-escobar-11709_committed_i-knew-something-was-wrong-that-day-he-m_1211625.jpg)
![“It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.” quote by Juan Pablo Escobar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10b/juan-pablo-escobar-11709_dealer_it-s-important-to-learn-from-the-past-an_2399816.jpg)
![“[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4f/michael-stipe-6714_age_columbia-house-magazines-were-how-i-foun_159607.jpg)