Maajid Nawaz Quotes
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.
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Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
