683 private quotes tagged car

“The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.” — June Jordan

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“The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.” — Sebastian Junger

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“In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.” — Christie Hefner

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“I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.” — Chris O'Donnell

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“I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.” — Joe Scarborough

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“When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.” — Joe Scarborough

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“A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.” — Michael Behe

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“Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.” — Coolio

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“I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.” — Emile Hirsch

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“Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.” — Jordana Brewster

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“People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.” — Jordana Brewster

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“In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.” — Michael Schumacher

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“I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.” — Peter Tork

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“I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.” — Susan Smith

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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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“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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“You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.” — Michael Fassbender

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“My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.” — Jordana Brewster

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“The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.” — Emerson Fittipaldi

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“The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.” — Nigel Mansell

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“You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.” — Walter Russell Mead

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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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“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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“Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.” — Eminem

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“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.” — Scott Adams

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