Vehicle Quotes - Page 2

• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  Steve Vai

  Commitment, Artist, Breathing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, Literature

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• In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.

  Lucy Powell

  Issues, Long, Lists

  "The plea of car owners ..." by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

  Thomas Mann

  Magic, World, Changed

  "Freud and the Future". "Essays by Thomas Mann". Book translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, p. 307, 1957.

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  Aaliyah

  Right Time, Dies

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• I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

  David Bowie

  Song, Expression, Wish

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters - a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

  Martha Beck

  Believe, Light, Shadow

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Car, Connections

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• There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Gun, Games, Design

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Expression, Novelists

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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

  David Attenborough

  Use, Facts, Opinion

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• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Vulnerable, Sophisticated, Building

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• 'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.

  Felicia Day

  Independent, Games, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

  Phil Donahue

  Ideas, Selling Things, Tubes

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Body, Care, Spirit

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  David Lynch

  Car, Meditation, Technique

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

  Ludacris

  School, Luxury, Car

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• Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

  Annie Lennox

  Communication, Opportunity, Platforms

  "Annie Lennox trying to get world to see changing face of AIDS". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2010.

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• That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Energy, Needs, Alternatives

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  Salma Hayek

  Fighting, Thinking, Important

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• And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Skating, Kind

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• There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, Reason Why, Fuel

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