Racket Quotes - Page 5

• War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

  Coleen Rowley

  War, Lying, Answers

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• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.

  Karl Kraus

  Believe, Sleep, Insomnia

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Guitar, Tennis

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

  William Hazlitt

  Ambition, Player, Being The Best

  William Hazlitt, Duncan Wu (1998). “The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt”, Pickering & Chatto Ltd

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• I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Guy, Mind

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• My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

  Newton Arvin

  Book, Reading, Blue

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• I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Marine, Cities, Honor

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• War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation.

  Madeline Taylor

  War, Soldier, Weapons

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Causes, Eric

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.182, Profile Books

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• Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

  Sojourner Truth

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Squirrels, Car, Tennis

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2010

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• I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Injury

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

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• Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

  Lee Child

  Government, Printing, Currency

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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• These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

  John Cusack

  People, Needs, Levels

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• First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Mean, Dark, Keys

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• Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths.

  Roland V. Libonati

  Jobs, Dark, Age

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• Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Support, Political

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

  Stefan Edberg

  Mistake, Javelin, Hot

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• I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Mirrors, Rocks, Tennis

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

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• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  Marat Safin

  Russia, Break Through, Practice

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". Interview with Jill Lieber, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Thou shalt not horn in on thy husbands racket

  Homer

  Husband, Horns

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• I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.

  Michael Richards

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Smart, Matter, Influential

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 101), 1975.

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