Suvs Quotes - Page 2

• We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

  Eric Weiner

  Past, Space, Spirit

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.149, Random House

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• As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid 16-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Kids

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• Un chico del instituto intentó atropellarme con el todoterreno de su padre. Mal empujó el vehículo contra el escaparate de una tienda". El recuerdo me hizo sonreír.

  Darynda Jones

  Correr, Recuerdos, Papá

  Darynda Jones (2015). "La serie Charley Davidson", p.185, St. Martin's Press.

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• The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Men, Phones, Cells

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Think of Iraq as "East Korea," because it was a shoot the cuffs war for the edification of Kim Jong Il to let him know we've now circled the SUVs. Iraq was about breaking adhesions, getting lean, staying frosty - in short, getting ready for the big Doug MacArthur Memorial Cage Match to come.

  Dennis Miller

  War, Thinking, Korea

  "Eliminating the Axis of Evil". www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2003.

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• It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Issues, Population, Three

  Entrevista con Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.

  E.W. Jackson

  Silly, Thinking, Planets

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• Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car?" I nodded. "I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying?" "Yes," Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. "I love you anyway." "There's all kinds of love," I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. "This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come in handy." "That's not love," I told him. "That's lust.

  Janet Evanovich

  Love You, Eye, Kissing

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• Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and trucks, that it was falling behind other companies in innovation. A lack of knowledge wasn't the problem. And mothers and fathers everywhere try to warn their kids that maybe a giant tattoo isn't such a good idea. Good luck in that fight, Knowledge.

  Dan Heath

  Tattoo, Mother, Father

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• En primer lugar, tengo que tener camiones porque vivo la mayor parte del tiempo en una granja de caballos, así que tengo que tener camiones. Es en el noreste; tengo que tener camionetas para mover la nieve, número uno. Número dos, sólo si estoy conduciendo, no tengo que tener un SUV, pero quiero un coche grande.

  Denis Leary

  Caballo, Mudanza, Dos

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• Necesito un todoterreno, para mí y mis cuatro hermanas. Por lo tanto, he reducido a cuatro, tipo de caro, los coches.

  Alexa Vega

  Sister, Car, Needs

  "AGENT ORANGE: La estrella de Sleepover Alexa Vega habla de su nueva película". Entrevista con B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. 9 th Of July de 2004.

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• I realized we'd pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four other black Bentley SUVs. "What's going on?" I asked, as we headed back toward the exit with two Bentleys in front of us and two behind us. "Shell game," he said.

  Sylvia Day

  Games, Two, Black

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.161, Penguin

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• People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Loyalty, Brother, Husband

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• This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea exploration, no drilling in the South China Sea, no SUV replacements, no renewable energy projects can be brought on at a sufficient rate to avoid a bidding war for the remaining oil.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War, Years, Sea

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes (2008). “Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (New Edition)”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

  Chelsea Handler

  Brother, Father, Made

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• Anyone who would argue that this third-generatio n MDX is an SUV might as well belong to the Flat Earth Society. The 2014 Acura MDX is the perfect expression of the modern car - capable, spacious, and friendly to drive.

  Michael Jordan

  Expression, Perfect, Car

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• En algunas escuelas suburbanas, el plan de estudios está repleto de rigurosos cursos de A.P. y el aparcamiento reluce con todoterrenos caros, pero no hay que buscar mucho para encontrar estudiantes que se matan de hambre, se cortan o se medican, así como estudiantes que descargan sus frustraciones contra los que están más abajo en la cadena alimentaria social.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Cutting, Frustration

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• Los ecologistas han difundido un montón de mentiras y desinformación a raíz de un informe de un economista idiota [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Los ecologistas dicen tonterías cuando afirman que la aviación es la fuente de emisiones de carbono de más rápido crecimiento. Las centrales eléctricas de carbón y petróleo son las que más carbono emiten, pero todavía no he oído a ningún intrépido guerrero ecologista abogar por la energía nuclear mientras va en su todoterreno a su próxima reunión de protesta.

  Michael O'Leary

  Mentir, Guerrero, Hablar

  "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" por Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. 4 de enero de 2007.

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• The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!

  Michael O'Leary

  Class, Environmental, Nuclear

  "Michael O'Leary's 33 daftest quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Differences, America, Atmosphere

  Ban-Ki moon speech at the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Perforar en el Refugio es totalmente innecesario cuando podríamos mejorar el ahorro medio de combustible de los coches, monovolúmenes y todoterrenos en tan solo 5 km por litro y ahorrar más petróleo en 10 años del que podríamos producir en el Refugio Ártico.

  Ed Markey

  Oil, Average, Years

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• Siendo el primer SUV de tamaño medio de la marca, el Dodge Nitro tenía que personificar la actitud atrevida, potente y callejera de Dodge. En un mundo de SUV anodinos, el Dodge Nitro 2007 tiene el diseño, la ingeniería y las prestaciones necesarias para inspirar a los consumidores y encender el mercado de los SUV de tamaño medio.

  George Murphy

  Potente, Actitud, Inteligente

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• [We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Strong, Technology, Light

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• The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

  Peter Diamandis

  Ideas, Pounds, Driving

  Entrevista con Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. 26 de enero de 2010.

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• I'm saying, come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  Larry el chico del cable

  Ice, Age, Dinosaurs

  "Hannity" con Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. 15 de junio de 2011.

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