Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
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Robbing
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one."
Alicia Keys
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience."
Mike Tyson
Professional Boxer
"I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing."
Cole Younger
Outlaw
"I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri."
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"Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun."
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"Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing."
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"Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar."
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"I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life."
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"I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia."
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