Barry Barish Quotes
The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
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I do not ask my cross to understandMy way to see:Better in darkness just to feel Thy handAnd follow Thee.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.
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I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
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I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.
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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
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A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.
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Healing is a moral thing to do.
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The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.
