Rainer Weiss Quotes
We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
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I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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He's a rat. That's not true. I'm just concerned about my son.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.
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Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.
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Having a lot of time left as president is a good thing for him, because it gives him the opportunities and time to get out of some of these holes.
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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
