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  • Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

    "On Murdoch" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2007.
  • The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

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

    Racket  
    "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.
  • The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

    War   Eight   Sky  
    Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press
  • I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

    Teenage   Kids   Mirrors  
    "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.
  • I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.

    Keys   Needs   Easy  
  • The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

  • Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

  • 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.

    People   Needs   Levels  
  • I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

    Thinking   Years   Tennis  
  • The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

    Life   Stars   Needs  
    Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.62, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • 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.

    Mean   Dark   Keys  
  • My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

  • The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

    "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.
  • To Serve and Protect..."- Traditional Motto of Protection Rackets

    Robert Asprin (1990). “M.Y.T.H. Inc. in action”
  • I'll let the racket do the talking.

    The Times (London), June 26, 1984.
  • The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

  • I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

    Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.
  • Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

  • 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.

    Book   Reading   Blue  
  • It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

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

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

    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.
  • 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.

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

    Military   Guy   Mind  
  • 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.

    Cutting   Guitar   Tennis  
  • Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater. Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?" Selective deafness" Teach me,master.

    Voice   Doors   Noise  
  • Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

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

    Source: davidbenson.webs.com
  • Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

    Firsts   Sides   Heavy  
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