Rainer Weiss Quotes
We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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One of my favorite luxuries in life is travel. Jet lag and lost baggage aside, it's an incredible way to learn about other cultures, meet new people, broaden your horizons... and do some amazing shopping!
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.
