Barry Barish Quotes
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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Even when you felt that your own life had tumbled irrevocably out of control. You did what you had to do, somehow. You kept racing ahead and hoped for the best.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
