Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Maajid Nawaz

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• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Fabulous
  • Madonna

• I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Blessed

• Life is about timing.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Timing

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Never
  • Penny
  • Tuition

• I'm never bored.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Never
  • Bored

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Heart

• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Writing
  • Power
  • American

• Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • Never
  • Assumptions