Barry Barish Quotes
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
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How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
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As lifespan increases fertility rates go down all over the world. Humans will create better technology and space travel will increase. These are all good signs for the future.
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Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
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You don't get to see your family much. In the movie business, directors often go out of town for long periods of time, and even if you're in town, you're working 14-15 hour days. People tend to not balance out the important things in their lives with their career.
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When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
