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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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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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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The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
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Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.
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I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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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.
