Driving Quotes - Page 21

• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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• Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

  Gerald Celente

  Cities, America, Energy

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• You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Letting Go, Fighting, Winter

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• The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.

  Warren Brown

  Purpose, Autonomous, Accidents

  "Real Wheels Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 2015.

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• Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

  Steve Pink

  Character, Challenges, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• As J.J. has said many times, when you start a series you want to have a destination. It's like driving a car, when you pull out of your garage and you head out driving down the road, you have a destination, okay?

  Bryan Burk

  Car, Driving Down The Road, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Law, Drunk

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

  Tyler Cowen

  Simple, Ties, Innovation

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• I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

  Kenny Smith

  Race, Would Be, Able

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• America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Nike, America, Justice

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• In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Liberty, Fields, Individual

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.200, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

  William Westney

  Acceptance, Oasis, Self

  William Westney (2006). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”, p.135, Amadeus Press

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• If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.

  Mark Bittman

  Shopping, Green, Vegetarian

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• Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

  Albert J. Nock

  Taken, Office, Towns

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• For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

  Lemon Andersen

  Book, Writing, Years

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• You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

  Mario Andretti

  School, Competition, Age

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

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• When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Halloween, Hero, Party

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• The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip.

  Pete Sampras

  Hands, Motorcycle, Clubs

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• However, you do need rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Europe, Finals

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• Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That`s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you`re saying, that I shouldn`t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn`t be driving this car.

  Bob Inglis

  Thinking, Car, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.

  J.H. Wyman

  Emotional, Stories, Overwhelmed

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

  Andrea Arnold

  Past, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• Though my wife thinks I'm mad, I know I'll drop my daughter to the parties she's invited to. I'll want her friends to say, "Wow what a handsome father you have!" When she's with her boyfriend in the backseat of our car, I'll be at the wheel, driving her around.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Daughter, Father, Party

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• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Imagination

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• I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.

  Tyra Banks

  Eye

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