Daniel Goldin Quotes
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My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.
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My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
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The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
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At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
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The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.
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At this point, everything is on the table, ... All possible offset options remain open, including reconsidering highway projects sought by members in the transportation bill.
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Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
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There is no need for the Russian state to hold such large stakes and we do intend to put our plans into practice. It is not about whether we want it or not, it is about this being practical or not and the best timing. In general, it is practical from at least one point of view - from the point of view of structural changes in the economy.
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
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There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.
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I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.
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Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we in US start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
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It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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The summer,' Randy explained. 'I'm going to appreciate it. I'm going to walk in the woods noticing everything, and ride my bike on all the roads I never explored. I'm going to fill a pillow with ladies' tobacco so I can smell it in January and remember about August. I'm going to dry a big bunch of pennyroyal so I can break pieces off all winter and think of summer. I'm going to look at everything, and smell everything, and listen to everything so I'll never forget.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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Yeah, I had done a lot of television in the '60s and I was dying to get into the movies. I was just sure I should be in the movies.
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We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.
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There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
