Blue Collar Quotes - Page 3

• I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Fun, Blue, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Struggle, Blue, Would Be

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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 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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• I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

  Pat Burrell

  Thinking, Blue, Class

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• The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

  Christian Bale

  Blue, Cinema, Collars

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of Trump's support is not the conservative base. It's all over the spectrum. He's got support from women, Hispanics, blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats. The demographic support that Trump has is what the Republican Party claims it wants. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is running around saying they want to win the nomination without the conservative base, without the pro-lifers, without the social issues crowd. Well, that's Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Party, Winning

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

  Bill Burr

  Blue, Cities, White

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Ninety Nine, Blue

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.

  Randy Harrison

  Jobs, Blue, Cities

  "Randy Harrison's the new Emcee in "Cabaret"". Interview with Tony Bravo, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

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• When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Smart, Son, Thinking

  Source: gawker.com

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• The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Blue, Boston, Drunk

  "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2009.

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• The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the Black man to the least remunerative section of the economy forever. The best such prospects offer are the dissatisfactions of blue-collar life. The big money ain't in pumping rationed gas in an Amoco station leased in your very own name, but in having stock in Exxon.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Men, Blue

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• I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

  Bob Gunton

  Father, Son, Knights

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

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• My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Father, Blue

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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 much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Blue, Typical, Actors

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

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos.

  George Pataki

  Blue, Numbers, Perfect

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• I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

  Jayson Williams

  Blue, People, Collars

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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