Blue-Collar Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an… — James Cameron
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,… — Ne-Yo
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R A Salvatore
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away. — Aaron Stanford
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town. — Jay Baruchel
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs,… — Joan Blades
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives… — Michael Cudlitz
I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people. — Jayson Williams
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with… — Penn Jillette
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what… — Michio Kaku
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues. — Kevin O'Leary
Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds… — Kevin O'Leary
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and… — Michelle Obama
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar… — Tom Peters
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer… — Tom Peters
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… — Liz Phair
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. — George A. Romero
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a… — Howard Schultz
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

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