Maajid Nawaz Quotes
All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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I like a quiet life.
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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
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Consumer behaviour changes in a glacial fashion.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
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. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
