Maajid Nawaz Quotes

In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
  • Help
  • Health

• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Like
  • Years
  • Look

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Long
  • Law
  • Dress

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• In Canada, the only weapons you have are for hunting.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Hunting

• I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

  

  Kristin Davis

• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • People
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Different
  • Hilarious

• Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Live
  • Country
  • Friends

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity