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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I started skating when I was six years old.
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Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
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We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.
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I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
