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• It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

  Nalini Singh

  Men, White, Despair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Black And White, Hands, Office

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.392, Bantam

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• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jealous, Long, Water

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• I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the crowning touch of bad boy hotness over the successful businessman, like whipped cream topping on a hot fudge brownie sundae. As my mother would say, only rogues and raiders had hair like that." (Eva about Gideon)

  Sylvia Day

  Sexy, Mother, Successful

  Sylvia Day (2012). “Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel”, p.28, Sylvia Day, LLC

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• If this were the fifties, she’d be checking Sam’s collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides, Sam almost always wore T-shirts.)

  Charlaine Harris

  Kissing, People, T Shirt

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.79, Penguin

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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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• Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

  Tim DeKay

  Lying, Character, Play

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• I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

  Larry Bird

  Thinking, Blue, People

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• I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

  Paul Walker

  Blue, Backgrounds, Feels

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• The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

  Markus Zusak

  Doors, Hands, Feet

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Body, Bones, Favourite

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• A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

  Robert Benchley

  Birthday, Fall, Men

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• I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  Aaron Stanford

  Blue, Actors, Blue Collar

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 7, 2004.

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• In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Class, People

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

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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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• Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.

  Harry Markopolos

  Jobs, Home, Government

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• Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.

  Dorothy Allison

  Sex, Struggle, Love Is

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.39, Penguin

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• Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

  Kurt Bills

  Party, Hard Work, Independent

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• Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

  Fanny Fern

  Brother, Men, Clothes

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.249

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• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

  Mike Rowe

  Wisdom, Jobs, Character

  "Good Magazine: America’s Dirtiest Interview". profoundlydisconnected.com. October 12, 2010.

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