Taxi Quotes - Page 5

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

  Smokey Robinson

  Relationship, Inspirational Music, Changed

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• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  Sam Rockwell

  Daughter, Mother, Coal Miners

  "Sam Rockwell on Outsiders, Mischa Barton and Their Lost Indie Gem Lawn Dogs" by Michael Adams, movieline.com. August 28, 2009.

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

  Sidney Sheldon

  New York, Angel, Lunch

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• I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

  Dan Stevens

  Thinking, Would Be, Drivers

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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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• What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

  Truman Capote

  Doe, Looks, Aspirin

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.40, Vintage

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• Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Race, America, Climate

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Cities, Chicago

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Action, Study, Nervous

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• Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wall, Wind, Dancing

  "'We still have the same disease'". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Rain, Eye, Angel

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• I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi... all of a sudden this city will start to go. In a flash, the buildings will crumble. Over the Tokyo streets will fall my China, like ash, leaching into everything it touches. Slowly, gradually, until nothing remains. No, this isn't a place for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Cities, Ashes

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• But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

  Georg Brandes

  Inspiration, Years, Study

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

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• We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

  Travis Kalanick

  Dark, Evil, Sides

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• It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

  Sara Sheridan

  Thinking, Order, People

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• The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as a 21-year-old, which I'm sorry for, and I urinated twice in public. That's in 11 years of football. I've never assaulted women and never been done for drink driving. My conscience is clear.

  Willie Mason

  Football, Sorry, Character

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Swans, Bird, Silver

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

  Tony Wilson

  Mother, Thinking, Knowing

  "It was the best party... ever". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.

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• EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Relationship, Sports, Strong

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