Maajid Nawaz Quotes
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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Honesty will never break you.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.
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Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.
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These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
