Collars Quotes

• I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.

  Robert Benchley

  Health, Eye, Hair

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Important, Suits, T Shirt

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• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  Ralph Lauren

  Girl, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, White, Flags

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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• The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, Justice, Criminals

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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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• I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

  Richard M. Daley

  Fighting, Former, County

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• There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, White, Political

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• The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Home, Golf

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• I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.

  Hines Ward

  Jobs, Team, Blue

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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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• I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

  Hines Ward

  Thinking, Blue, Cities

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• I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

  Jayson Williams

  Blue, People, Relate

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• Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

  Robert Jordan

  Necks, Spears, Happenings

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1869, Macmillan

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• Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Solar System, Celluloid, Whole

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, America, Crime

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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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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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