Maajid Nawaz Quotes
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
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When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
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You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
