Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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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.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
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The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me.
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Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
