#gang

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. ↗

— Richard Helms

#clients #court #done #failed #fourteen

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#city #every #gang #outcasts #so-called

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#dork #gangly #i #really #such

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#criminals #explanation #eyes #gangs #gentlemen

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#always #been #drug addict #films #gangster

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#all nations #always #gangsters #great #great nations

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#belong #else #everybody #gang #i

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#border #each #fixed #fought #gangs

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#crooked #did #early #gangster #get

Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible places, into respectable drawing rooms and attics and into the midst of chattering, guzzling, yawning and sleeping listeners, and exactly as it strips this music of its sensuous beauty, spoils and scratches and slimes it and yet cannot altogether destroy its spirit, just so does life, the so-called reality, deal with the sublime picture-play of the world and make a hurley-burley of it. It makes its unappetizing tone-slime of the most magic orchestral music. Everywhere it obtrudes its mechanism, its activity, its dreary exigencies and vanity between the ideal and the real, between orchestra and ear. All life is so, my child, and we must let it be so: and, if we are not asses, laugh at it. It little becomes people like you to be critics of radio or of life either. Better learn to listen first! Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#beauty