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Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. -- Dana Carvey
We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars. -- Walid Jumblatt
What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars? -- Nancy Grace
We went from candy bars, to handle bars, to hangin' in bars, to being behind bars -- MF Grimm
Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck -- Rachel Vincent
But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars. -- Jennifer Echols
BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals! -- Steve Clevenger
Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. -- Wentworth Miller
If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars. -- Cynthia McKinney
And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night. -- Elton John
When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson. -- Nelson Mandela
Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims. -- Bob Riley
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be. -- Judy Woodruff
Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it's behind bars." "It's a zoo, Iggy," Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything's behind bars. -- James Patterson
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners -- Paul Krassner
Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do. -- Alexei Navalny
We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars. -- Thomas Frank
Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions. -- Hillary Clinton
If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars. -- Ethan Nadelmann
The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars. -- Ridley Pearson
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent. -- Henry Giroux
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. -- Adolf Loos
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside. -- Upton Sinclair
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes. -- Eskinder Nega
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Ã?owyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars. -- Wesley Snipes
When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. -- Barry McCaffrey
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out. -- Linda Blair
The matter of bringing in corrupt leaders was started by [Mwai ] Kibaki, and in truth, do not be surprised if you find that the likes of William Ruto find themselves behind bars after the elections, because he has cases pending against him. -- Raila Odinga
I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men. -- Werner Herzog
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. -- George Galloway
If you are going to make companies, corporations, actually responsible for the safety of other people's lives, then if they fail in their duty, the only thing to prevent them failing in their duty is the fear that they would be put behind bars. -- Nina Bawden
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences. -- Fulton J. Sheen
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars. -- Gary Johnson
Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun. -- Ofir Drori
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about. -- Johnny Cash
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. -- Axel Munthe
I'd actually quite like to try working behind a bar for a while. I'd give that a go. -- Russell Tovey
To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar. -- Adam Rayner
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. -- Sun Ra
The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail. -- David Hewson
I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at. -- Jack Falahee
I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video. -- Michael Weatherly
When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move. -- Kellan Lutz
Institutionalized:Ghetto stars pimped so hard for so long -- they'll starve to pimp themselves behind psychic bars. -- T.F. Hodge
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. -- Jerome K. Jerome
I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars -- Lil Wayne
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. -- Doris Roberts
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness. -- Nelson Mandela
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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