David Samuels Quotes

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

David Samuels

• Car
• Radio
• Planets
• Loud
• Insects

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• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

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• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

  

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• What are you doing with a car here in 1860?

  

  Walt Disney
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• It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. The difference is that you can compel your car to go to a garage, but you cannot compel Hitler to go to a psychiatrist.

  

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• A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring, we had a week off. I have a problem with flying, so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads...

  

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• I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

  

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• My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.

  

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• Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

  

  David Samuels
  • Car
  • Radio
  • Planets