The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don’t need justification.
I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: ‘Pile Driver.’
It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn’t need a translator or a driver. Where I didn’t need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.
My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.
This job is like stealing. I travel first class in a nice plane. I have a driver waiting for me. I go in a room and have room service. I have a meeting. Then I go to the best game of the weekend and talk football – and they pay me.
High school and college students can show shelter residents how to fill out the forms to get their Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, and other documents needed for education and employment.
The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
I haven’t seen it this busy since I’ve been an IndyCar driver. So I think that’s a great kind of thing that’s happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it’s an event that I’m very proud to be part of. I love it. I can’t wait to come back next year.
From ‘Midnight Cowboy’ to ‘Taxi Driver’ is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers’ work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I’m not in the driver’s seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It’s ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
The communication between the driver, the spotter and the crew chief is very key. You can’t have people talking at the same time, so it’s like a choreographed radio call of a baseball game.
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don’t wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
Each driver has some particular style, and you compete against each driver in each race a little bit differently.
I like having as many team-mates as possible. It’s great, because the more people you can learn off, the better I think it will make you as a driver.
I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.
With ‘Taxi Driver,’ I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn’t me.
When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
When I leave backstage, some of the fans ask if I’m a roadie, and I just tell them, ‘No, I’m the bus driver.’ And, of course, they believe it.
I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.
Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.
A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.
Hartsfield Jackson plays a fundamental role in recruiting and retaining jobs. It should be known as an economic driver – not a venue for shady deals.
When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you’re feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.
I think I’ve benefitted a lot of times from having my dad as a racing driver and I don’t think I would be here if it wasn’t for him because McLaren probably wouldn’t have looked at me.
‘The Driver’ wasn’t commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.
The designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
It is a hugely embarrassing situation to find myself in, I’m a professional driver and to be caught speeding and to have my licence taken away for speeding, it would have an effect on my reputation.
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
The one thing you shouldn’t do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.
My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver – so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.
We want to save every driver five minutes a day.
Don’t believe the hype; don’t believe what it tells you on your driver’s license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.
You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver’s license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don’t have a license.
F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.
I remember being very influenced by ‘Taxi Driver’, and also Tommy Lee Jones in ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ a little bit.
I pull out on the highway, and a truck hit my driver’s door going 70 miles an hour. Took off my right leg from the knee down; broke 20 something bones.
I love the role of being the experienced driver and that is definitely the case next year – I think I am the most experienced guy in F1 next year.
‘The Driver’ kind of set the tone for what I wanted to say, and lyrically, it especially did.
I don’t feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I’m in the driver’s seat.
Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business’s doors going ‘I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand’.
When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan, I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide. It’s very nice if you win, but it’s not so good if you lose. All this is part of being a Ferrari driver.
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.
There’s certain guys who dictate or change the way they play based off who they’re playing, and that still may translate to success for them, but the way that I play is, like I say, I’m in the driver’s seat.
Americans are very patriotic and they want someone to support. In order to entice more fans, and to allow F1 to compete with Nascar and IndyCar, there needs to be an American driver.
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they’re not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
My dad was a taxi driver – he’s a long distance lorry driver now – and he has an amazing work ethic.
Everything for us as a driver is related to our working, on your work and how you feel. It helps how you feel, how happy you are; also for your private life.
I look at safety as, you know, there’s active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash. Active is accident avoidance. And so that’s real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation.
