Geoffrey Marcy Quotes
I am honored to be included with professor Mayor in this award. His innovative brilliance has been impressive and he has served as a model for young scientists.
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I like to start my day with a glass of coconut water, some protein powder, and a mix of things - goji berries, flax seeds, hemp seeds, even the flesh of a coconut or anything with a lot of fibre. I often add bananas, or eggs - fried or boiled - to my breakfast.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
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I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
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The darkness
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It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
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We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
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Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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I am honored to be included with professor Mayor in this award. His innovative brilliance has been impressive and he has served as a model for young scientists.
