Blue Collar Quotes

• I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

  George A. Romero

  Halloween, Blue, Ideas

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• My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

  Lee Greenwood

  Blue, House, Personality

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• Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

  George A. Romero

  Blue, Zombie, Monsters

  George A. Romero, Tony Williams (2011). “George A. Romero: Interviews”, p.174, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

  Mike Rowe

  Wisdom, Jobs, Character

  "Good Magazine: America’s Dirtiest Interview". profoundlydisconnected.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

  Gerry Cooney

  Growing Up, Men, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Kids, Eye, Blue

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• But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

  Joan Blades

  Jobs, Kids, Blue

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

  Sue Grafton

  Eye, Blue, Lawyer

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• I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

  Adam Carolla

  Blue, Guy, Valleys

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• I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

  Paul Walker

  Blue, Backgrounds, Collars

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• I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

  Jamie Moyer

  Blue, Raised, Collars

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• In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

  Serge Schmemann

  Blue, Circles, Leader

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• When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Party, Blue, Big Families

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• If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

  Bob Edwards

  Jobs, White, Blue

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• The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Garden, Blue

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• I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Blue, Everyday

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

  John Leguizamo

  Blue, Class, People

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• The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.

  Lois Gibbs

  Winning, Odds, Government

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• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Country

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• Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

  Kurt Bills

  Party, Hard Work, Independent

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• I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

  Mike Rowe

  Hero, Blue, House

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• I grew up on a pig farm in southeast Nebraska. When I started doing the Blue Collar Tour, I thought it was kind of funny because I faked my accent, so everybody thought I lived in an apartment somewhere. But I grew up on a pig farm.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Pigs, Blue, Nebraska

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  Ice T

  Brother, Father, Blue

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• My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Children, Father

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