Maajid Nawaz Quotes

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Maajid Nawaz

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PassionMedicalMaturityMindWorld

I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

Jim O'Heir

KindGuyBeenHappy-Go-LuckyMostly

I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

FatherColdRememberFirstMark

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Meg Cabot

LoveParentsMeBelieveSometimes

I don't make plans anymore. So I'm not living minute to minute.

John Mulaney

PlansLivingMinuteMakeAnymore

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

SpiritualSystemOnlyBeforeEver

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

Steve Erickson

AlwaysFilmmakerClearAwareEven

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

Stefano Gabbana

WorkPeopleEnoughYouUnderstand

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.

Rue McClanahan

PerformanceReadyTwoTakeGoing

As a reader, I have always enjoyed 'ranty' books, but they are all written by men.

Claire Messud

MenAlwaysBooksEnjoyedReader

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

LifeSuccessObstaclesOvercomeHe

I do watch what I eat, but I don't make it myself. When I eat out, I just have to make sure the things I buy are good and healthy.

Anton du Beke

GoodMyselfHealthyEatOutBuy

Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the same holds true for my readers. We only have legitimate enmities. And yet the entire universe swarms with scapegoats.

Rene Girard

RelationshipI AmUniversePerson

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