Ava DuVernay
Film Director
"When you're in your lane, there's no traffic."
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Lanes
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lewis Mumford
Philosopher, Author
"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic."
Meek Mill
Rapper
"Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane."
Gerard Butler
Actor
"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
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"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."
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"Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane."
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"Genealogists live in the past lane."
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"You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas."
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"The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then."
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"I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music."
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