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Rainer Weiss Quotes

We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Surprises Expect

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

Language Only Torment The Only Thing

Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.

Work Work Hard You Follow Hard Head

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

Funny Great Deep Feel You Early

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

Good Mistakes Habit Black Thought

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.

Robert M. Gates

People Me Think Person Reason CIA

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

Time Fish Genius Organizing Island

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

Down Right Religious

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

Steven Spielberg

Government Support Believe I Believe

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Telephone Telegraph Been Blackberry

Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.

Best Know Dead Cave Jeans Own

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Great Time Water Fire Intelligence

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Jean de la Bruyere

Man Master Slave Advancement May

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