Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
Quotes to Explore
-
I write in a small office at home.
-
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
I want to be acting until the day I die!
-
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
-
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
-
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
-
I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
-
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
-
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
-
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
-
I was not really as good as I should have been.
-
I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
-
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
-
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
-
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
-
Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
-
American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
-
Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
-
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.
-
Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
-
I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
-
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
