Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that. Hey, dude, what are you in for? Armed robbery? Murder? And then, you have to say, Love. And, that's definitely going to get you, you know, picked last for prison kick ball.
I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.
Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.
Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.
In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.
It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.
Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.