Barry Barish Quotes
When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that convincingly demonstrated that gravitational waves exist.

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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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We are all put in different positions for different reasons.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.
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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
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When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that convincingly demonstrated that gravitational waves exist.