Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I never was a very good singer.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
