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" A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. "

Florence Griffith Joyner

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" You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake. "

" Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric. "

James Howard Kunstler

" When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race. "

" We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up? "

" I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills. "

" It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself. "

" Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents. "

Jerry Reinsdorf

" If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights. "

" Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear. "

" I don't know anything about cars. I can promise you that. "

Shaquille O'Neal

" My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old. "

" It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it? "

" Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at house, and I'm in the studio or performing every night. I like Beats by Dre for headphones, and Bang & Olufsen soundsystems. "

" Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower. "

" If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition. "

" I love cars, but I love bikes more. "

" I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't? "

" A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. "

" I never cared about money. When I was at school, I never wanted a car. I was focused on sports, studies, camping, being outdoors. "

" Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. "

" Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do. "

" I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job. "

" We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest. "

" If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. "

" When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars. "

Kyle MacLachlan

" I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles. "

" The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day. "

" I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive. "

" I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions. "

" I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars. "