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• My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Mother, Running, Father

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.

  Dave Barry

  New York, Humorous, Would Be

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• Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Differences, Waiting

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Swings, Iron

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• For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

  Arthur Miller

  Believe, Hair, Order

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.560, A&C Black

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• But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

  Barack Obama

  Maps, Want, Election

  "Obama's Remarks in Espanola, New Mexico". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 18, 2008.

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• The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Motor Racing, Circuits

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• Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers.

  Mary Katharine Ham

  Circles, Political, Trying

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• She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Mother, Science, Chinese

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• ... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.

  George Arthur Crump

  Data, Tape, Reliability

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• Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

  David Riesman

  Men, Frustrated, Jam

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

  Michael Biehn

  Giving, Serious, Credit

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• I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

  Michael Biehn

  Attitude, Mirrors, Acting

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• Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

  Melissa Bean

  Country, Community, Needs

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• My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Men, Phones

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• Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

  Linwood Barclay

  Running, Opportunity, Light

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• Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

  Kurt Busch

  Organization, Leaving, Easy

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• I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

  Dave Brubeck

  Mother, Two, Yosemite

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• I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

  M. Ward

  Appreciate, Perspective, Needs

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Islamic, Justice, Car

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• I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Clever, Dad, Little Sister

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

  Jean Alesi

  Team, Needs, Lap

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• Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Son, Thinking

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• What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Men

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