car

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘car’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad’s a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars – how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I…

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  • “We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, ‘I’ll be damned. we’re Republicans.’” -Susana…

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  • “Sometimes I feel like I’m not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.” -Sandra Lee

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  • “That’s what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.” -Alison Krauss

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  • “I know I will die in a car crash.” -Katie Price

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  • “I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there’s usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there’s six guys waiting for me.” -Kevin Pietersen

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  • “I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don’t drive, I wouldn’t mind riding a bike… People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I’m an artist, man. I’m going to live like an artist.” -ASAP Rocky

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  • “Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.” -Earl Wilson

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  • “A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.” -David Mitchell

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  • “With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that’s a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I’ll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don’t care about the environment, that’s not it. But I adore…

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  • “I don’t even own a car.” -Bill Nighy

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  • “Of course, I’m older now. I’m in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for ‘Car Wheels’ or ‘Essence’ or whatever. Different things were going on.” -Lucinda Williams

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  • “I hate fishing, and I can’t imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.” -Joseph Barbera

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  • “I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.” -Sheena Easton

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  • “If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it’ll be the last car he’ll ever lay down in front of.” -George C. Wallace

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  • “I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.” -Danielle Steel

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  • “Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.” -Naomi Campbell

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  • “I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.” -Grover Norquist

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  • “I’m just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That’s not to say that there’s something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can’t stop watching, like a car crash.” -Steve Coogan

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  • “I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it’s motivational. I like old heavy metal when I’m outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.” -Peter Steele

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  • “I don’t actually own a car.” -Chris Martin

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  • “The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out.” -John Hawkes

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  • “Johnny Guitar… just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the ’50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.” -Etta James

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  • “But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I’m in the car.” -Donna Shalala

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  • “L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.” -Lee Child

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  • “I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy.” -Kevin Bacon

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  • “I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.” -Quincy Jones

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  • “We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.” -Jimmy Fallon

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  • “In New York, you’ve got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they’re all on the same subway car.” -Ethan Hawke

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  • “I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.”…

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  • “Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.” -Maurice Strong

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  • “I borrowed my friend’s car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.” -Emily Mortimer

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  • “I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it’s bedlam. Everyone’s got crazy eyes.” -Emily Blunt

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  • “Well, I’ve been in a few car wrecks.” -Dave Matthews

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  • “I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.” -Andy Murray

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  • “When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?” -Jim Bishop

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  • “The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?” -James Hillman

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  • “I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody’s car.” -Tim Allen

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  • “I’m a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that’s great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.” -Danica Patrick

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  • “I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it’s a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.” -Ice T

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  • “Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.” -Mike Myers

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  • “Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we’ve all been heavily sedated from it. If we don’t come into consciousness of this tragedy, there’s going to be a violent awakening we don’t want. The question is, can we wake up?” -Anna Deavere Smith

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  • “It was my father who instilled the ‘never say no’ attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “I did this Super-8 film at art school called ‘Tissues,’ this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.” -Jane Campion

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  • “By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.” -Ayelet Waldman

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  • “I think we’ve been dulled by capitalism. We’re just blobs now – we’re so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can’t really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.” -Rupert Everett

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  • “Before now, I’ve always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I’m listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.”…

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  • “I like structure – like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you’ll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you’ll have it. By doing this I’m giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what…

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  • “I’d kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.” -Brooke Burke

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  • “Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn’t have a place to live, I still didn’t have a car, but I had peace.” -Sherri Shepherd

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  • “When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.” -Gavin DeGraw

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  • “Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork other times, like a car accident.” -Eric Roberts

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  • “I don’t put myself on Jeff Beck’s level, but I can relate to him when he says he’d rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.” -Ritchie Blackmore

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  • “The thing people don’t understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don’t get to see much of the city or meet people at all.” -Taylor Momsen

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  • “When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.” -Javier Bardem

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  • “It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.” -Conrad Hall

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  • “Stay humble. Always answer your phone – no matter who else is in the car.” -Jack Lemmon

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  • “One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.” -June Carter Cash

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  • “I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother’s Morris Minor. I drove it around my father’s farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.” -Rowan…

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  • “A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.” -Peter De Vries

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  • “A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.” -Florence Griffith Joyner

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  • “It’s like, it’s kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that’s my show. It’s a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.” -Craig Ferguson

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  • “When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad’s car when he’d be playing old-school music. He’d turn down the music and turn around and I’d be singing and know all of the words but I didn’t even know how to talk. From then on I’ve always wanted to be…

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  • “Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.” -Thomas Friedman

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  • “I’ve got Asperger’s syndrome and I’m not a very good people person, so I’ve always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way – I don’t want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!” -Gary Numan

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  • “Okay, let’s talk about cartoon labels for half a second – some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It’s, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it’s actually a solid wine.” -Gary Vaynerchuk

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  • “My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and…

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  • “I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn’t like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, ‘If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?’ And within a…

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  • “I’m lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that’s important because I want to know that I don’t have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don’t want to and that I’ll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food…

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  • “There are certain times I don’t want my picture taken. If my wife’s stepping out of a car and it looks like it’s going to come out an indecent picture, don’t I have a right to object?” -Bobby Darin

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  • “I’m a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I’m commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.” -Murray Walker

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  • “Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.” -Eric Bana

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  • “I think we’re getting to the point where everyone’s getting fat and everyone’s getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can’t walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.” -Adam Carolla

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  • “You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you’re going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.” -Carlos Ghosn

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  • “A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” -Kenneth Tynan

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  • “Nobody’s ever asked me to pay for a meal before I’ve eaten it, I’ve never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.” -Wentworth Miller

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  • “It just seemed too weird to me. I don’t know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents’ apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.” -Marc Jacobs

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  • “The bass player’s function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car… everything else is merely colours.” -Suzi Quatro

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  • “Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.”…

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  • “I think I’m actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.” -Roland Gift

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  • “Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I’m gonna drive a car one day, so I don’t worry about that.” -Stevie Wonder

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  • “The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.” -Sloane Crosley

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  • “I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.” -Rosanne Cash

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  • “Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes – all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone’s car or ask a cell phone company for that individual’s location history and the technology does the work for them.” -Ron…

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  • “I’ve got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody’s looking.” -Reba McEntire

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  • “You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that’s it.” -Rita Mae Brown

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  • “If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.” -Roger Ebert

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  • “I didn’t come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I’m proud of that.” -Kid Rock

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  • “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to…

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  • “The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers’ license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun…

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  • “At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.” -Dennis Rodman

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  • “Can you design a Rorschach test that’s going to make everyone feel something every time – and that looks like a Rorschach test? It’s easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don’t…

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  • “The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.” -J. G. Ballard

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  • “You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it’s hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.” -Tom Waits

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  • “My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.” -Vin Diesel

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  • “At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don’t service that car well, the customer won’t return.” -Roger Staubach

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  • “When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you’re so consumed with that, you really don’t have time to know yourself. That’s surviving and getting by.” -Fred Durst

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  • “The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.” -Dean Kamen

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  • “If you don’t have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it’s like getting in a car and not having any gas.” -Gus Van Sant

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  • “Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character’s existence is a big help.” -Colin Farrell

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  • “Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.” -Evan Davis

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  • “My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician’s car.” -Larry Hagman

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  • “You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you find a personal coach or a private car?’ I can’t. Then I won’t be part of my people.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.” -Russell Baker

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  • “Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.” -Edward de Bono

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  • “I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.” -Evel Knievel

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  • “I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.” -Ben Stein

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  • “The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it – and you don’t leave a Ferrari out in the sun.” -Joan Collins

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  • “The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.” -Timothy West

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  • “My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline – she always says, ‘Mummy, keep the door open,’ when I’m filling up the car. I’ve heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world – maybe that’s something to study for my next fragrance!” -Kate Moss

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  • “Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.” -Al Gore

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  • “Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.” -Billy…

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  • “There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.” -Leon Trotsky

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  • “Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it’s rarely driving the car.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • “Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.” -Barbara Corcoran

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  • “I’m still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “I want to be remembered for the work that I’ve done, rather than the car accidents that I’ve gotten into, the men that I’ve not dated – or the man that I have.” -Lindsay Lohan

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  • “So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.”” -Tim Vine

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  • “My grandma’s the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she’s doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!” -Jeff Foxworthy

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  • “I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.” -Bono

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  • “I have a car but it’s not important.” -Eric Cantona

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  • “Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.” -Marilyn vos Savant

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  • “I’ve crashed my car three times.” -Billy Joel

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  • “I drive an electric car.” -David Duchovny

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  • “If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.” -Joyce Carol Oates

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  • “Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.” -Jesse Jackson

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  • “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” -Lewis Mumford

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  • “I’ve never been to a race car race before.” -Christina Ricci

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  • “I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.” -Amy Winehouse

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  • “Fact: The new ‘90210’ is cooler than the old ‘90210.’ It’s the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series’ venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents – they’ve been replaced by a hipster mom n’ pop who get busted necking in the car.” -Diablo Cody

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  • “The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.” -Ben Sweetland

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  • “Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.” -John Mayer

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  • “I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren’t coming after me!” -Richard Pryor

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  • “I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it’s hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.” -Dee Dee Ramone

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  • “Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it.” -Susan Orlean

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  • “Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out…

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  • “There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.” -David Byrne

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  • “I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.” -Noam Chomsky

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  • “By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.” -Jessica Savitch

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  • “I don’t run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.” -David Attenborough

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  • “The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It’s more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.” -Suze Orman

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  • “I don’t want to die in a car accident. When I die it’ll be a glorious day. It’ll probably be a waterfall.” -River Phoenix

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  • “I’m very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I’m like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.” -Avril Lavigne

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  • “So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.’” -Tommy Cooper

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  • “John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.” -Ralph Nader

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  • “I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.” -Anne Lamott

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  • “Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.” -Philip K. Dick

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  • “It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” -Elie Wiesel

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  • “It’s shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven’t got a car yet.” -Tom Felton

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  • “You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.” -Mario Andretti

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  • “I’m sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.” -Billy Corgan

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  • “Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.” -Robert Plant

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  • “They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.” -Billie Holiday

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  • “I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.” -Ferdinand Porsche

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  • “To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I’m passionate about food!” -Hugh Jackman

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  • “My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you’d ever seen, but I had never had money…

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  • “I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.” -Tori Amos

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  • “People who have car collections – I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It’s not beautiful, it’s not creative. It’s just showing how much money you’ve got.” -Daniel Radcliffe

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  • “My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” -Richard Branson

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  • “Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” -Marshall McLuhan

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  • “I want a pit crew… I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.” -Dave Barry

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  • “I don’t want to argue with my wife about her car – or my driving.” -Dale Earnhardt

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  • “If God drives a car, He’d drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.” -Doug Coupland

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  • “White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.” -Kim Kardashian

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  • “I know a man who doesn’t pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.” -Henny Youngman

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  • “I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don’t have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.” -Mindy Kaling

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  • “I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.” -Dolly Parton

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  • “Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.” -Martha Gellhorn

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  • “If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.” -Bo Bennett

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  • “A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.” -Sean Hampton

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  • “Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” -Jack Kerouac

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  • “People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they’re very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they’re kind of hard to tell apart – especially if the human is kind of hairy.” -Demetri…

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  • “Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.” -Bill Watterson

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  • “The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.” -Jerry Seinfeld

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  • “You don’t have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.” -Kesha

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  • “I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.” -Steven Wright

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  • “I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.” -Ayrton Senna

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  • “I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.” -Michael Jackson

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  • “My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.” -Rodney Dangerfield

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