Barry Barish Quotes
It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.
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I am who I am.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.
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It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.
