Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
-
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
-
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
-
On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
-
I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
-
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
-
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
-
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
-
I have the necessary lack of tact.
-
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
-
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
-
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
-
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
-
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
-
When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.
-
I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.
-
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
-
We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
-
I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference.
-
Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
