"Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia."

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Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 164), 1975.

Jimmy Hoffa

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“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”
“I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up having Lois dress up all sexy and stuff-but really what I would dress up like is a Stormtrooper. That's what I'd do, because it's hilarious, and who doesn't want to be that at some point, right? So then they made something out of that.”
“Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.”
“Let me go, let me go.”
“If you love your dad, itâ€™s tough when he dies. If you donâ€™t like your dad, itâ€™s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didnâ€™t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.”
“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”
“You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.”
“I think producing is first about understanding and finding people who understand it in the same way throughout the crew and everybody who's going to be working on it. And a piece of that is also personality, because there's a lot of psychology into being a good producer.”

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