Andrea M. Ghez Quotes
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!
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I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.
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I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, 'Either is both, and Both is neither.'
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The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
