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  • As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal. -- Travis Kalanick
  • I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. -- Lance Armstrong
  • There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal. -- Alex Turner
  • Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward. -- George Weah
  • I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs! -- Kirk Hammett
  • I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. -- Steven Wright
  • The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. -- Dan Buettner
  • Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal. -- Mitt Romney
  • I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. -- Jasmine Guinness
  • Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever. -- Charlie Trotter
  • Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact. -- Dean Karnazes
  • Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin. -- Andrew Bird
  • For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard. -- Michael Azerrad
  • The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much. -- Dan Buettner
  • Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401. -- Linwood Barclay
  • There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach. -- Kirk Hammett
  • When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles. -- Ali Liebegott
  • For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit. -- Andrea Bocelli
  • You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%. -- Jenson Button
  • Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country songs as I pedal along, sing them, have lunch, have a nap, groan, moan, write a small bit more, cook dinner, feed wifey, open a bottle, or several, slump, sleep. -- Kevin Barry
  • I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses. -- Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. -- Henry Rollins
  • I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story. -- Graeme Base
  • I'd love to drive a Lamborghini, but I think it's hard when the pedals are way down in there, and you sit real low, but I've come up with some pedal extensions. I actually sit in a kids' car seat that my old boss put this beautiful leather wrap around, and it looks just like a Corvette seat that sits on top of my leather Corvette seat. -- Martin Klebba
  • I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces. -- Patrick Carney
  • Nobody can pedal the bike for you. -- Cynthia Lewis
  • The pedal is the soul of the piano. -- Anton Rubinstein
  • Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. -- Desmond Tutu
  • I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars. -- Harley King
  • I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace. -- Sarah Silverman
  • Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. -- H. L. Mencken
  • If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else -- Douglas Wilson
  • If the gas pedal on your car is shaped like a bare foot, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards. -- Sam Altman
  • Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream. -- Kelly Clarkson
  • Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up. -- Wayne Gretzky
  • The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew. -- Bernie Worrell
  • I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years. -- Kenny Chesney
  • If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade. -- Steven Chu
  • It's very good to know when you're being lapped on the racetrack, 'cause you've got to put your foot down on the pedal and get going. -- Jay Mohr
  • Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop. -- Bethann Hardison
  • The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal. -- Mickey Rourke
  • Can you drive any faster?" Tohr demanded. "I got the pedal to the medal" The angel looked back. "And I don't care what I have to mow over -- J.R. Ward
  • Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals. -- Victor Borge
  • 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. -- Guo Guangchang
  • I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today. -- Fabian Cancellara
  • Saudi Arabia might proceed toward Sharia slower than Al-Qaeda wants. Al-Qaeda wants pedal-to-the-metal, nothing else in focus, we're heading to Sharia, and the Saudis might not be going there fast enough, so Al-Qaeda hits them. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Saudi Arabia might proceed toward Sharia slower than Al-Qaeda wants. Al-Qaeda wants pedal-to-the-metal, nothing else in focus, we're heading to Sharia, and the Saudis might not be going there fast enough, so Al-Qaeda hits them. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
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