Rainer Weiss Quotes
You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
Halle Berry
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
Tavi Gevinson
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
Nathan Myhrvold
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
Zac Brown Band
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
Ed Westwick
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Fernando Pessoa
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Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland
Nancy Pelosi
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What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
Bob Dylan
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
John Adams
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One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
Margaret Cho
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Benjamin Rush
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
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My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.
Andrea Seigel
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You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.
Katharine Hepburn
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And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.
Sunny Murray
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You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it, we see it as a distortion of space. And space is enormously stiff. You can't squish it; you can't change its dimensions so easily.
Rainer Weiss