Ahmed Zewail Quotes
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology...
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The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
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If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.
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The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
