Blue Collar Quotes - Page 4

• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Work, Blue, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  School, Fighting, Oregon

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• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Father, Blue, Montana

  "Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Tomdispatch Interview, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

  Liz Phair

  Rocks, Blue, Rock And Roll

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• The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

  Tom Peters

  White, Blue, Office

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• And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

  Michelle Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Home, Blue

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• In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Blue, Injury

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.

  Christine Gregoire

  Book, Blue, Ideas

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

  Adam Savage

  Jobs, Husband, Dirty

  "Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters". Interview with Jenny Williams, www.wired.com. October 5, 2009.

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• What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are like secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be like a really big tomboy.

  Melonie Diaz

  Baseball, Cousin, Team

  "Fruitvale Station‘s Melonie Diaz On Getting “Comfortable” With Michael B. Jordan". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Home, Blue, Doors

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• The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Brother, Stars

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• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

  Tom Peters

  Technology, Blue, Office

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