Collars Quotes - Page 2

• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Gentleman, Apparel, Brass

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

  Johnny Depp

  White, Red, Taste

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

  Sue Grafton

  Eye, Blue, Lawyer

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• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

  Mike Royko

  Cat, Choices, Cooking

  Mike Royko (2001). “For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Hair, Police, Facts

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• I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

  Ewan McGregor

  Years, Firsts, Thirds

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• 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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• Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

  W. L. George

  Dog, Men, Intuition

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• Girls, you know it's all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone.... I mean, look at this poor guy in the background with his collar up. You know he's just gonna get ruined by women.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Girl, Mean

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• There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

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• I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

  James Cameron

  Blue, People, Hollywood

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

  John Grisham

  White, Inmates, Prison

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• I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

  Busy Philipps

  Puff, Littles, Peter

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

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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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• 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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• A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

  Jesse Ventura

  Crime

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• My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Father, Years, White

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• When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Echoes, Wind

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

  Eartha Kitt

  Cat, Race, Creeds

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

  Bill Watterson

  Hey, Faces, Your Face

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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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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• 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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