Blue Collar Quotes
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Blue Collar Quotes & Sayings
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I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.
— Cynthia Kadohata
I'm a blue collar guy.
— Bill Engvall
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
— George A. Romero
I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.
— Jayson Williams
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes.
— Leon Wieseltier
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
— Adam Carolla
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
— Kurt Bills
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
— Liz Phair
I was raised in a very blue-collar family.
— Jamie Moyer
I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.
— George Pelecanos
America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
— Troy Polamalu
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
— R.A. Salvatore
Most people recognize that many blue-collar jobs pay more than white-collar jobs. Few act on that recognition.
— Venkatesh G. Rao
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
— Terry Hayes
When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.
— Johnny Galecki
The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.
— Craig T. Nelson
The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.
— Yao Ming
Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.
— Howie Carr
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
— Sue Grafton
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
— Bob Edwards
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.
I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.
— Joe Mantegna
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
— Kevin O'Leary
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
— Ice-T
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
I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.
— Pat Burrell
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
— Aaron Stanford
I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.
— Philip Kan Gotanda
My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.
— Ne-Yo
The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.
— Christian Bale
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.
— Lee Greenwood
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
— Howard Schultz
I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
— Riley Smith