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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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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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.
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I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.
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I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
