Barry Barish Quotes
The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.
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Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.
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Lionel Messi is awesome.
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I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
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If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
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Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.
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I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.
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Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we are unleashing.
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This accident is another reminder of the need to improve the safety of transporting hazardous materials by rail.
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The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.
