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I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that. -- Juanes
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction. -- Nick Lampson
So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future. -- Peter Lynch
Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. -- Honore de Balzac
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. -- Dave Allen
My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy. -- Christy Lemire
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. -- Iris Murdoch
A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see. -- Ellen Wong
A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see. -- Ellen Wong
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord. -- Nate Saint
I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet -- Jay Rockefeller
Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you. -- Tom Waits
Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards. -- Octavia Butler
My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo. -- Mark Twain
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. -- Charles Petzold
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed. -- Mark Twain
I am very pleased to see this project moving ahead. The Hamilton Airport serves as an international gateway to south-western Ontario. This new facility will allow the airport to expand its air cargo business and help strengthen the local economy. This is another example of Ontario's commitment to public infrastructure that contributes to long-term growth for the region. -- Ted McMeekin
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? -- Charles Caleb Colton
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. -- Robert A. Brady
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo. -- Dana Rohrabacher
We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well. -- Asa Hutchinson
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo. -- David Harsanyi
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. -- Pat Conroy
I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue. -- Janice Hahn
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent. -- Irwin Redlener
We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses. -- Richard M. Daley
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. -- George Grey
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. -- Allyson Schwartz
A lot of people don't understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue. -- Janice Hahn
Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. -- Umberto Guidoni
I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages. -- Kendrick Meek
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. -- Anne Campbell
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. -- Bill Nye
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. -- Albert J. Nock
When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route. -- Rose George
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft. -- John Pistole
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer. -- Taylor Wilson
I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. -- Abraham Lincoln
A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo... -- Russell Brand
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. -- Robert A. Brady
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. -- Sylvia Plath
I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue. -- Janice Hahn
Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container. -- Ben Cohen
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? -- Jared Diamond
Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'? -- Peter Lerangis
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes. -- Louis R. Chenevert
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. -- John Masefield
A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue. -- Janice Hahn
The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail. -- Fred Thompson
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market. -- Frederick W. Smith
Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial. -- David Berg
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you? -- Jubal Early

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