Daniel Goldin Quotes

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

Daniel Goldin

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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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Car
  • Green
  • Transportation

• 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.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Work
  • Space
  • Transportation

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Fun
  • Surprise
  • Alternatives

• The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • God
  • Government
  • Religion

• At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.

  

  C. H. Douglas
  • Time
  • Change
  • Present

• The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Resilience

• 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.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Options
  • Bill
  • Transportation

• 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.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • Energy
  • Alternatives
  • Cleaners

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Needs
  • Economy
  • Plans

• 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.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• 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.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Alternatives
  • Metals
  • Grunge

• I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Form
  • Periods
  • Transportation

• 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.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Prosperity

• Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Trees
  • Alternatives

• A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Said
  • Newspapers
  • Practicals

• 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?

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Running
  • Body
  • Alternatives

• We are not discussing alternatives because we are hopeful and confident we are going to get approval.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Confident
  • Alternatives
  • Discussing

• 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.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Dying

• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Home
  • Father

• I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!

  

  Bette Midler
  • House
  • Stories
  • News

• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  

  Daniel Goldin
  • Alternatives
  • Practicals
  • Transportation