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Marshall McLuhan

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."

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Akshay Vasu

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

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"The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!"

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"Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!"

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"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."

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"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car."

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"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood."

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"I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar."

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"Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience."

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"When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!"

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"I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'"

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