Barry Barish Quotes
I think there's a bit of truth that LIGO wouldn't be here if I didn't do it, so I don't think I'm undeserving.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.
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I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
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The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
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Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
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I think there's a bit of truth that LIGO wouldn't be here if I didn't do it, so I don't think I'm undeserving.
