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Joseph D. Pistone

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I knew how wiseguys acted. I knew the mentality. I knew things to do and not to do. Keep your mouth shut at certain times. Don't get involved in things that don't concern you. Walk away from conversations and situations that aren't your business, before anybody asks you to take a hike. - Joseph D. Pistone
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'The Godfather' is a great movie, but it gives them too much credit. What you don't see is what really takes place: the in-fighting, the lying to each other, the scheming against each other to get power. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I didn't try to be a tough guy. I didn't try to be a big mobster. I was who I was. I didn't stop doing what I normally did. I worked out. I lifted weights. I ran. That's what I usually did. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out. - Joseph D. Pistone
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If you're an L.C.N. guy, you don't have facial hair and you don't have long hair. You have to be neat all the time. It's the rule. - Joseph D. Pistone
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One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia. - Joseph D. Pistone
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'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I like horses. - Joseph D. Pistone
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What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy. - Joseph D. Pistone
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When you wear a wire, you're always in danger. - Joseph D. Pistone
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A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I rarely carried a gun undercover. - Joseph D. Pistone
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I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job. - Joseph D. Pistone
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You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you're dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience. - Joseph D. Pistone
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