Maajid Nawaz Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
