Nicholas Pileggi Quotes

#1. Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#2. She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Lev Grossman

#3. I like the sober Callie, the one that I can talk to. The one that is so sweet it's fucking adorable. The one that trembles use from the feel of my breath. The one that I want to kiss and touch so fucking badly it drives me crazy. The one that makes me feel things ...

Jessica Sorensen

#4. Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Nicholas Pileggi

#5. I am one with the popular culture.

Lloyd Blankfein

#6. As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Nicholas Pileggi

#7. Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

Janet Napolitano

#8. Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

Nicholas Pileggi

#9. For most of the guys killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

Nicholas Pileggi

#10. I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide, but I didn't. I gotta admit the truth: It turned me on.

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#11. People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

Jonathan Miller

#12. Worrying about what other people think is a jail of our own creation, and the irony of it is those people are in the same jail with us.

Srinivas Rao

#13. Henry was never able to help McDonald crack Lufthansa - the

Nicholas Pileggi

#14. They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

Meryl Streep

#15. Laughter is a gift from God. When we refuse to accept it, it makes Him want to take it back. Like the unicorns.

John Acuff

#16. I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

Tila Tequila