"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."

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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Car, Money, America, Killing

"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."

Joel Coen, American Director

Car, Ability, Birds, Blood

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."

Steve Case, American Businessman

Car, Idea, Time, May

"Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit."

Jim Harrison, American Writer

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"Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car."

Evan Davis, British Economist

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"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it."

Bill Conti, American Director

Car, Music, Movies, Mind

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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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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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

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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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"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

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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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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."

"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."

"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."

"Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit."

"Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car."

"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it."

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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

"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.'"

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

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

"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."

"Money is just the poor man's credit card."

"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."

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

"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."