Racket Quotes - Page 5

• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Book, Teaching

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• I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tennis, Backyards, Firsts

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.61, David C Cook

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• To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

  Robert Asprin

  Protection, Motto, Traditional

  Robert Asprin (1990). “M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

  Rick Springfield

  Cutting, Guitar, Tennis

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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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• 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 helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Cities

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.

  Serena Williams

  Balls, Court

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• Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking.

  Weegee

  Home, Kids, Blood

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• If a 13 year old girl is pregnant, that is evidence of sexual abuse and that’s supposed to be reported to the authorities and these people are never doing it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the American abortion industry is running a pedophile protection racket and they’ve been doing it for years and they’re often getting federal tax dollars to run this thing.

  Mark Crutcher

  Girl, Running, Years

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• You know just because the majority thinks something is right, doesn't make it right. So, that is up to us, the people that see the wrong, that see the injustice, that stay educated, stay informed, stay involved. And there's an old phrase 'the squeaky wheel, gets the oil.' Right now, our wheels aren't very squeaky; the other side, they're the ones making all the racket...We just have to get up, stand up, speak out, and don't be silent.

  Otep Shamaya

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Oil

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• If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

  Quentin Crisp

  America, Nodding, Ifs

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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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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• Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening. And they put on all kinds of makeup and parade around the street with their shopping cart yelling "Sale on aisle seven!" at anyone who will listen. Their wooden clog sandals make a helluva racket on linoleum tile. Their plastic jewelry clatters like the bones of little children.

  Rob Campbell

  Children, Book, Makeup

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• I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

  Sloane Stephens

  Watches, Balls, Opponents

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• This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Bags, Actors

  "John C. Reilly, with Jake Kasdan". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 25, 2007.

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