Racket Quotes - Page 3

• Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

  Bill Moyers

  Media, Political, Protection

  "On Murdoch" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2007.

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• My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.

  Susan Crandall

  Strong, Mean, Past

  "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Book by Susan Crandall, 2014.

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• The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

  David Hackworth

  War, Taken, Old Saying

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'

  Matt Labash

  Senior, Rap, Media

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• Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.

  Johnny Depp

  Kids, Two, Alcohol

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• Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

  Simon Heffer

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

  Isaac

  Guitar, Fake, Tennis

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• Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

  Cass McCombs

  Play, Stuff, Fluff

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• We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually.

  Matt Labash

  Want, Littles, Found

  " Home openDemocracy oDR oD-UK oD 50.50 democraciaAbierta Shine A Light Transformation More Walter Lippmann and American journalism today" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.opendemocracy.net. October 31, 2007.

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• Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary governments, patriarchy, matriarchy, monarchy, oligarchy, protection rackets, intimidation by gangsters, and every other kind of coercive institution. In other words, anarchism opposes government in all its forms.

  Donald Rooum

  Army, Government, Wages

  "What Is Anarchism? An Introduction". Book by Donald Rooum, August 1, 1992.

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• Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life Is Good, People, Excess

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “The Enchantress of Florence”, p.30, Random House

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• Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater. Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?" Selective deafness" Teach me,master.

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Doors, Noise

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• protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Race, Government

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• I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

  Nikolay Davydenko

  Home, Records, Four

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• We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk." —

  Raymond Chandler

  Sleep, White, Average

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

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• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, Respect, Tennis

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• I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

  Joe Mantegna

  Want, Public Life, Ifs

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• Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

  Bjorn Borg

  Firsts, Sides, Heavy

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• It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

  Marat Safin

  Pain, Play, Three

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• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

  Libba Bray

  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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• Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

  John P. Wheeler III

  Running, Political, Mafia

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• Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish

  Wallace Thurman

  Years, Long, Thank God

  Wallace Thurman (2013). “Infants of the Spring”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Snares

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• It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Crooked

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