Maajid Nawaz Quotes
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
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In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
