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 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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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.
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I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
