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

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

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"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

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"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

Jimmy Fallon, American Comedian

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"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

June Carter Cash, American Musician

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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

Tracey Gold, American Actress

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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

Car, Hate, Problems, Race

"We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph."

Jimmy Fallon, American Comedian

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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."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Car, Time, Behavior, President

"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."

J. G. Ballard, British Author

Car, Dreams, American, Assassination

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."

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"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."

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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."

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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."

Education

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."

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"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."

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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."

Privacy

"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."

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"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression."

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