"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."

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"I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war."

Ken Lucas, American Politician

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"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."

Robyn Hitchcock, English Musician

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"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."

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"Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!"

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"A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon."

Gregory Nunn, American Athlete

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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."

Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer

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"Prejudices save time."

Robert Byrne, American Celebrity

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"Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy."

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"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

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"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."

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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

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"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."

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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."

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