Cadillacs Quotes

• Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

  Ben Stein

  Soul, Should, Shots

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• I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

  Black Francis

  Country, Cities, Trying

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• Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

  Etta James

  Nice, Long, Riding

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

  Barry White

  Jail, Tire, Stealing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  Megan Martha White

  Dwarves, Cities, Red Lipstick

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  H. Rap Brown

  Men, Black, Doe

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• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

  Duke Snider

  Salary, Dollars, Six

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• I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

  Tom Waits

  Lying, Ideas, America

  " Tom Waits gives the devil his due" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

  Pete Rose

  Running, Home, Modern Life

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• The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Labels, Parks

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

  Mitt Romney

  Couple, Stupid, People

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Vote for me, I'm not Mitt Romney" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Ambition, World

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• When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Junk, Yards

  Song: Cadillac Ranch, Album: The River, 1980

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• My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.

  Buddy Holly

  Love, Trying, Bigger

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• Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs

  Ralph Kiner

  Running, Home, Home Run

  Ralph Kiner, Joe Gergen (1987). “Kiner's korner: at bat and on the air-- my 40 years in baseball”, Arbor House Pub Co

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• My radio's loud like a fire alarm:
  The floor vibrates, the walls cave in,
  The bass makes my eardrums seem thin.
  Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back...
  You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!

  LL Cool J

  Wall, Party, Rap

  Song: I Can't Live Without My Radio, Album: Radio

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Guitar, Hanging On, Hillbilly

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• They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

  David Mamet

  Mother, Law, Definitions

  "Home is the hunter". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2000.

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• You know how I impress girls at the gym? I do pull ups: I pull up in a Corvette, in a Cadillac, and in a Mercedes.

  Jerry Lawler

  Girl, Pull Ups, Impress

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• Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

  Tom Waits

  Beautiful, Doors, Four

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.

  Bill Lear

  Lear

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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