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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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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In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.
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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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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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I am convinced, based on more than three decades of studying NRMs through participant-observation and through interviews with both members and ex-members, that these movements have unleashed social and psychological forces of truly awesome power. These forces have wreaked havoc in many lives - in both adults and in children. It is these social and psychological influence processes that the social scientist has both the right and the duty to try to understand, regardless of whether such understanding will ultimately prove helpful or harmful to the cause of religious liberty. … the real sociological issue ought not to be whether brainwashing ever occurs but rather whether it occurs frequently enough to be considered an important social problem.
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I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.
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Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.
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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.
