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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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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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
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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.
