"I lived in Hollywood and I had all that, the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari and the pad in Beverly Hills. I had the surf board and the Beach Boys and the bishkis and the Neil Diamond and the ramskam and the Jimmy shriffen [ph.] and the Elvis Presley's best of bestlies and all them guys. The Deana Martins and the Nancy Sinatras and the cops and sovereigns, "Will you do it to me? I hear you do it good honey" and all that kind of "Will you come up to my house later?" So I went through all that and I seen that was a bigger prison than the one I just got out of and I really didn't care to go back in prison. See, prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying, or it's open to a world that's free and alive."
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Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (12 November 1934 – 19 November 2017) was an American criminal who led the "Manson Family", cult members of a quasi-commune, in late-1960s California. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the cases which became known as the Tate–LaBianca murders carried out under his instruction.
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