Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

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• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Relationships

• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Performance

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Training

• 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Think
  • Proud

• I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Never
  • News
  • Brand

• I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Up
  • City

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Important
  • Fence
  • Construction

• Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Pay
  • Too Much

• Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Children
  • True

• I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nature
  • Enjoy
  • Sunshine

• The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Purpose
  • Life is
  • Heavens

• A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Government
  • Give
  • Take from

• Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Brain
  • Sense
  • Give

• Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Definitions
  • Interpretation
  • Reasonable

• Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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  • Islam
  • Interpretation