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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

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• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

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• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

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• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

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• Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

  

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• I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

  

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• French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

  

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• I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.

  

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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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • American
  • Religious
  • Struggle