Driving Quotes - Page 24

• In the early days I was on the road 45-50 weeks a year, driving from gig to gig 6-8 weeks in a row. Not everyone can do that. The show becomes the easy part. Tt's the life on the road that is the hardest... and you can't get any good at standup unless you do the road.

  Henry Cho

  Years, Gigs, Week

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• Ever drive by one of those things on the highway which tells you how fast you're going? I don't even pay attention to them anymore because I found a similar gadget in my dashboard... Some people slow down at those things... I don't slow down. I speed up and set the high score.

  Gary Gulman

  People, Dashboards, Attention

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• Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

  Dov Davidoff

  Moving, Sleep, Thinking

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• Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

  Carlos Mencia

  Aunt, Race, Car

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• As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Successful, Golf

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• I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Character, Light

  "JB Smoove, comic and torturer". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. January 20, 2012.

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• There's no other place I'd rather have it than here in Mexico. It's a race track that I was looking forward to going to from the time we were here last year. This track just fits my driving style perfectly.

  Denny Hamlin

  Race, Years, Track

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• Activism has always been the driving force for change.

  David Swanson

  Force, Activism, Driving Force

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• I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.

  Robert Crumb

  America, Guy, Ordinary

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• Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

  Mona Kuhn

  Photography, Discovery, Self

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• I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

  Christopher Walken

  Flying, London, Way

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 01, 2012.

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• I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.

  Marilyn Manson

  Keys, Needs, Able

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• I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

  George Kukla

  Ice, Doubt, Age

  "Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years". George Kukla's remarks at the international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, www.columbia.edu. February 25, 2000.

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• The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.

  Mark Galli

  Running, Queens, Drama

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• An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if we have a show I will take another plane for my destination. Otherwise I will take a plane to return home and fall in bed very, very late.

  Chris Jericho

  Fall, Home, Airports

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• I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heart, Thinking, Hollywood Hills

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"

  Charles Koch

  Attitude, Philosophy, Opportunity

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• I never had a postup game, which really hurt me eventually. Later in my career, teams would put smaller guys on me to stop my shooting and driving and I wasn't able to exploit my height advantage. I would just take bigger guys outside and drive or shoot my setshot.

  Dolph Schayes

  Hurt, Team, Games

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery to logic and understanding. Those are the primary driving forces of my life. I have this ability, for some reason, to be able to hold both the Magical MysteryTour we're on in conjunction with the logical rigor of understanding theoretical physics, which makes me kind of a rare bird, because usually you're one or the other.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Theoretical Physics, Bird

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it.

  Thom Yorke

  Sea, Nuts, House

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

  Noel Gallagher

  Morning, Drinking, People

  "The Noel Gallagher life management system" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

  Bernard Manning

  Laughing, Mind

  "Bernard Manning has his last laugh" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

  Anthony Edwards

  School, Years, Eric

  "Anthony Edwards on Zero Hour, ER, and being Top Gun's "Mr. Lefty Liberal Peace Lover". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.

  Dick Morris

  Years, People, Watching Tv

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• People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Thinking, Curves, People

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