All writers steal from their own lives.
Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.
An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.
Only your friends steal your books.
It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
Death steals everything except our stories.
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it. "