Driving Quotes - Page 27

• One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Teacher, Interesting

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Fields, Rush Hour

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

  Seth Godin

  Obvious Things, Choices, Littles

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!

  Karen Mason

  Distance, Long, Truck

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.

  George Clarke

  Mom, Brother, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Giving, Watches

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• The fear of being uncovered, the fear of being made known for their wickedness is what is driving the ADL and that Synagogue of Satan, false Jews to pin the label on me as an anti-Semite. This is something they feel they must do in order to cover the evil that they have done or are a party to.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, Order, Evil

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview by Richard B. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

  Leonard Cohen

  Different, Comeback, Certain

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• The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

  Devendra Banhart

  New York, Listening, Velvet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.

  Craig Finn

  School, Home, College

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.

  Danielle Dutton

  Track, Age, Next

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

  Ian Bremmer

  Strong, World, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

  Peter Diamandis

  Ideas, Suvs, Pounds

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home.

  Shelby Harris

  Home, Sleep, Night

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.

  Tod Machover

  Daughter, School, Radio

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, Views, Feet

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

  Regina King

  Children, White, Black

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

  Muhammad Ali

  Class, Citizens, Cadillacs

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

  Jacob Lofland

  Two, Hours, Lanes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I optioned the magazine article. That was end of 2003. It was a time when the war was incredibly popular here and everyone was driving around with flags on their car, if you remember not too long ago.

  Paul Haggis

  War, Long Ago, Car

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• Many Saturday mornings, I take 495 from Fairfax to Maryland in the morning, and I'm astonished by the speed of many of the drivers. Even when I drive 70 mph, I'm being passed by people driving 80-90+ at times.

  Robert James Thomson

  Morning, Mph, People

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 2, 2016.

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• I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Kids, Actors

  Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2016.

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