Judah Friedlander Quotes

I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

I've been fortunate when in government to have a car at my disposal, which takes away the nightmare of getting a taxi.

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

I like taking the subway to work.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

I love Manhattan.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

If you live in a crowded area of Brooklyn or Manhattan, having a car is a hindrance. It doesn't even make sense. I basically grew up all my life without a car.

It's good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.

Traffic snarls or jet life doesn't make a city fast.

North Jersey residents rely on mass transit to get to work and our entire region is interconnected by our transit system.

I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars.

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.