Alan G. Poindexter Quotes

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

Alan G. Poindexter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: astronaut
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1961 - July 1, 2012

Topics

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Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Mehmet Oz

PeopleMedicineThinkSharpDisease

I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

John Joseph Adams

GenerationNextStarIllogicalTrek

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

John Key

ResponsibilityMeYouDareSeriously

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Jeff Greene

Not InterestedOwningInterested

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

Ana Navarro

CommunismCountryPresidentOldBeen

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

Stephen Wolfram

ScienceProgressMeWorldBuilding

But I don't really like to discuss Phil anymore.

Ronnie Spector

LikeAnymoreReallyDiscussPhil

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenMenThinkSexPayOwn

I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.

Mitchell Joachim

LiveTechnologyAgeMeThinkDoing

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Louis Farrakhan

FreedomCallFightersThem

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Dick Fosbury

MomentTeamTrainAthleteNever

I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

Douglas Hodge

AlwaysExtraordinaryBeingIntroduced

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