I don’t know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
The Americans may think they have ‘liberated’ Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It’s cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims’ homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family histories – definitely mine – its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.
Don’t worry, don’t worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves – and now look at them. It’s just a matter of time.
Bald guys have been playing the bad guy for a long time, whether it’s pirates, thieves, murderers, or whatnot, so the deck is a little bit stacked against you in that regard.
In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don’t know there’s another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don’t take kindly to thieves in Africa.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
When you’re an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere – even from someone on the street. We’re total thieves!
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family histories – definitely mine – its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.
The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.
Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones – no questions asked – and then ‘jailbreak’ them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
All my cousins steal things. They’re just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Vittorio De Sica famously made ‘Bicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows.
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