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

  John Grisham

  White, Inmates, Prison

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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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• I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

  Joe Mantegna

  Thinking, Blue, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Horse

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• Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

  Frank Gehry

  Patriotic, People, Feel Good

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

  Laura Moriarty

  Strong, Long, Age

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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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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• When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hair, People, Cameras

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Father, Holiday, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The base has chosen or is choosing a candidate that the establishment says is absolutely unacceptable. And what that means is this marriage of an elite, big business-backed establishment and a blue-collar, downwardly mobile base has really come to a divorce.

  Mara Liasson

  Mean, Divorce, Blue

  "Rounding Up The Week In Politics". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, wkms.org. March 6, 2016.

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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 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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• Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.

  Ann Coulter

  Heart, Gay, Blue

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• That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.

  Tina Fey

  Nice, White, Color

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• I know there's similar dissatisfaction in America. There's a lot of white people who come from blue collar backgrounds and who feel ill-equipped and badly served by modern economics and the modern job market.

  Dylan Moran

  Jobs, White, America

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, White, People

  "Brooks and Dionne on the GOP's dilemma and the role of 'common decency' in the campaign". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.

  Lily Collins

  Cute, Differences, Impact

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

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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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• In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Pennsylvania, East

  Source: www.pbs.org

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