Barry Barish Quotes
A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
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The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.
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We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.
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I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be.
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Race theory is at variance with all Korean traditions; not for nothing did the national language lack a word for race until modern times.
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A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.
