Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.
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You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
