Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
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The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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I suddenly felt the plane go down. I thought we were going to die. I was really scared. I was sitting with my head in my hands.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
