Maajid Nawaz Quotes
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
