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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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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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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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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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
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When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok.
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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.
