Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Jimmy Hoffa

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• America is a meritocracy.

  

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• The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

  

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• Akira Kurosawa as quoted in Kamiski, Michael (2007). The Secret History of Star Wars(PDF). p. 48. Retrieved 2011-01-31.

  

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• In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

  

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• When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.

  

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• Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

  

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• The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

  

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• I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.

  

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• Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

  

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• I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

  

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• My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

  

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• The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

  

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• I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years.

  

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• I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

  

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• The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

  

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• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Whiskey