"I rob banks because that's where the money is."

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Source : "Willie Sutton Said It First: ‘That's Where the Money Is’" by Leonard Buder, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1979.

Willie Sutton

“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.”
“My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.”
“The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.”
“One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.”
“I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.”
“When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They're a terrific cast. They worked really hard.”

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