Taxi Quotes - Page 4

• Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.

  Guy Laliberte

  Jobs, Fun, Creativity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

  Denis O'Hare

  New York, Yelling, Taxi Cabs

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• [Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Exercise, Journey, Cycling

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• It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Looks, Want, Rewards

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• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  Zach Braff

  New York, Eye, Evil

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• When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

  Sally Phillips

  Blonde, Four, Brunette

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• When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.

  Mike Royko

  Long, Driving, Said

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.360, Agate Digital

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• I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Airplane, Airports

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• My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

  Joe Lhota

  Mother, New York, Dad

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• I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Son, Dna

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Three, Comedy, Argument

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• It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

  Freeman Dyson

  Humor, Problem, Characteristics

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Weirdo, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

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• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Acting, Moments

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• Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Struggle, Bread

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

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• You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

  Marilu Henner

  People, Knows

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• On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Morning, Sunday

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Teacher, Years, Class

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Intelligent, Dinner, Parks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

  Matthew Perry

  Cheer, Past, Thinking

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• When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

  Aisha Tyler

  Girlfriend, Phones, Cells

  Aisha Tyler (2013). “Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

  Martin Scorsese

  Winning, Sight, Awards

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• Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

  Groucho Marx

  Talking, Office, Tears

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.

  David Richo

  Grief, Grieving, Land

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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