Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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A good leader must be fair.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
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We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.
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When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
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We use digitisation and 3D-render programs such as Optitex and ClO3D to create the silhouettes, but we invented our system to let users mix and match components in real time.
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Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
