Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride."
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Tim Allen
Actor, Comedian
"I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children."
Steve McQueen
Actor
"Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look."
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba."
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"I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle."
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"[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration.""
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"Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle."
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"Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba."
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"I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed."
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"A zest for living must include a willingness to die."
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"Our cheeky sidekick. We're like a motorcycle and sidecar."
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"On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME."
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"The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions."
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"We all like motorcycles to some degree."
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"I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either."
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"My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with."
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"I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills."
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"I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it."
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"I have all these weird fantasies. Going coast-to-coast on my motorcycle and having random barbecues all over America. No show, no nothing."
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"It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined."
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"I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold."
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"Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco."
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"I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession."
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"You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can."
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