Zahi Hawass Quotes
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I got a big mouth.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.
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There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.
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Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
