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James May Television presenter, journalist, and author
Car

"Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?"

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Car

"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system."

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"Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?"

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Jerry Reed Musician, Songwriter, Actor
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"Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life."

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Paula Cole Singer-Songwriter
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"I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . ."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."

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Dora Russell Artist
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"One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons."

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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"Nobody's about saving anymore. No one cares about a rainy day anymore. Nobody saves up enough for even an umbrella for a rainy day. It's sad. It really is a new form of slavery. We used to work to be able to afford material things. Now we work for these things. They're the boss. That house you can't afford, that car that's out of your price range, that cellphone that drains your bank account - that's your boss."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars."

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"Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car."

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