Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
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The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
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I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
