I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A’s in high school (except for driver’s ed and typing).
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver’s seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.
When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn’t work out.
Geeks are a critical driver of America’s innovation ecosystem, from the entrepreneurs launching startups in Silicon Valley to the scientists experimenting in university research labs to the whiz kids building gadgets in their parents’ garages.
For a season, I would say driver is 40%, car/team is 40% and then 20% is luck when it comes to winning a championship.
When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver’s door of a car.
I had no idea at two or three years of age that my dad was a rally driver and he was doing doughnuts around the world.
John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season – and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear.
No one watches ‘Taxi Driver’ and says, ‘Oh, it’s a male-oriented film.’ No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, ‘It’s a male-oriented film.’
My aim, as always, is to deliver a good and consistent performance across the year. That is the goal for any driver.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
I’m basically a marketing director, a CEO and a racing driver all in one, because I have to understand why brands would want to partner with me and sponsor me and give me the support I need to race, because if I don’t have the money I don’t race.
A lot of people simply don’t know about the ability to be a living donor. All of us grew up on the idea that you only got organ donations from a dead person that had checked a box on a driver’s license.
I think if a driver commits to a team it’s like disappearing with another girlfriend half way through the year, it doesn’t seem like the right thing to do.
To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver’s licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.
If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I’m not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
As far as I’m concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.
My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver’s education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn’t get paid.
Nobody says Nico Rosberg is only in F1 because his dad was a famous racing driver who funded his karting career and helped him get into F1. It s a bit unfair just to focus on the fact that my husband is in F1 and it’s the only reason I’m in an F1 car.
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
I’m not a guy who makes five or 10 moves. I’m just more of a simple, straight-line driver, just try to be crafty with my dribble and keep it tight.
We took the insurance companies out of the driver’s seat.
I believe that Renault can provide me with a competitive car in the future, and that’s what a driver needs and what a driver is looking for.
Everyone who has ever aspired to be a stock car driver wants to win the Daytona 500. If someone says that it’s better to win somewhere else, then that tells me one thing for sure – they’ve never won at Daytona.
I don’t think there’s any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
The best way ideally to stop a wide receiver in the driver’s seat is to get a jam on him and slow up their timing. But it just so happens that’s literally my strongest tool in my bag. I just bank on me being faster and a little bit more technical than whoever it is that I’m playing.
My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.
When you’re driving Tom Cruise around, and he’s literally a race car driver, and you’re supposed to be driving like you really know what you’re doing… It’s quite intimidating.
The time I say that I am a number two driver, I will not race any more.
Do I support a driver’s license for everybody? The answer is yes.
And I’d get back to the cars being physical challenges to drive – to tame the beast. The cars we have at the moment are fantastic bits of engineering, but it’s a little too comfortable, a little too easy. I think I’d go back to making the driver a bigger variable.
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
In fighting, you’re not going 200 mph, but there’s obviously danger in the sport. If you’re a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you’re obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
I think the Internet is a key driver of opening up opportunities, which impacts many things, including development – I will repeat that I am not a fan of looking at technology or the Internet in Africa through the lens of development – we love the Internet for sake of the Internet.
Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn’t provide for revenue growth, and I think that’s a big driver.
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he’s persuasive.
My father was a tricycle driver before, then he became a farmer and a fisherman.
You pretty much know as a driver what too fast is.
I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn’t happen.
I’m somebody who doesn’t feel the need to be in the driver’s seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger’s seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I’ve learned a lot from that perspective.
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
I don’t think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn’t a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn’t an entry point.
I’m told that as a child, when my dad was alive, I’d get up, put on my coat and go sit in the back of his car. The driver would just go around the neighborhood – as long as I had my little trip, I was happy.
Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don’t be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.
I’m very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver’s license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
The Russian Vitaly Petrov I feel was the worst newcomer and the worst driver.
I am a trained, professional stunt driver. I’m a great driver.
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I’m sorry, you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Working with Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver was just a dream. A bit of a pinch-yourself moment.
I don’t want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver – the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes – everything.
But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I’m in the car.
I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time.
