Maajid Nawaz Quotes

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

Maajid Nawaz

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Live
  • India

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Swimming

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Funny
  • Best

• India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Technology
  • Innovation
  • Accountability

• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Government
  • Border

• If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Guy
  • Single
  • Cute

• I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

  

  Luke Evans
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• He tried again, but their sullen, rural obstinacy was impervious to logic.

  

  David Brin
  • Logic

• Now, of my threescore years and ten,Twenty will not come again,And take from seventy springs a score,It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloomFifty springs are little room,About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Snow

• As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Opportunities