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Rainer Weiss Quotes

My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.

Rainer Weiss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1932

Topics

Father Mother Practice Parents Me

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

Jesse Ventura

Police Learn Know Why Seem Only

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Angela Davis

Think Philosophy Person Teach Who

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

Jean Fritz

Life Child Parents Me Writing Place

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

Troy Duffy

Time Movies Hollywood Missed First

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Tom Brokaw

Fishing Religion Fly Church High

I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.

Ronald D. Moore

Death Captain Write Wanted Really

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

Michaela Conlin

Never First Used Get Homesick Moved

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Michael Shermer

People Me Strong Facts Find Always

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Mitt Romney

Success People Speak Better Speech

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Lou Holtz

Life My Life Trying Come Been Make

I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.

Dennis Quaid

Life Love Relationship Time Same

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

Craig Ferguson

War America Go Afraid Scotland