Maajid Nawaz Quotes

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

Maajid Nawaz

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There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Joanna Scott

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If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Amy Heckerling

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It is always a good feeling to score the first goal in a new stadium.

Alvaro Morata

GoodFeelingGoalNewFirstAlways

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

LiveSoulHouseWillDividedCannot

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

Robbie Robertson

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Arsenal-Chelsea games can go either way. They are always competitive and physical and really good games technically.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

GoodGoGamesWayAlwaysEither

Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

Lucy Dacus

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The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.

Joseph Abboud

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Money ain't everything.

Dolly Parton

MoneyEverything

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Chris Frantz

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I love to read aloud.

Cornelia Funke

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I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it's been two hours.

Colm Wilkinson

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