Drivers Quotes - Page 24

• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

  Jared Harris

  Glasses, Cab Drivers, Done

  "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

  Lady Gaga

  New York, Car, Littles

  "Lady Gaga lives the simple life" by Lauren Pervizi, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Looks, Problem

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• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

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• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  Sam Rockwell

  Daughter, Mother, Coal Miners

  "Sam Rockwell on Outsiders, Mischa Barton and Their Lost Indie Gem Lawn Dogs" by Michael Adams, movieline.com. August 28, 2009.

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• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Intellectual, Answers

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

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• The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Guarantees, Financial

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• I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Real, Italian, Men

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• I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

  Jo Nesbo

  Too Much, Taxi, One Time

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• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, India, Inattention

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• You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

  John Mellencamp

  Car, Choices, Guy

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• When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

  Tim McGraw

  Dad, Kids, Cowboy

  "Flicka". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Waiting, Forever, Getting Older

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Light, Effort, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Pnin”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, May, Information

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• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  Rahul Dravid

  May, Rage, Ends

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• My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Asking, Legs

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• I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Thinking, Long, People

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

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

  Diego Della Valle

  Kids, Racing, Wanted

  Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.

  James Surowiecki

  Focus, Care, Problem

  "Bitter Pills". www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Bram Stoker

  Horse, Light, Sky

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.23, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

  Dan Stevens

  Thinking, Would Be, Taxi

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