I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.
I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe. "
There are many other [then ISIS] terrorist organizations. And their primary victims are Muslims. I think that's very important.
Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.
When we talked about a wall, right, to try to keep out this threat. The problem is that these are ideas. And they are filtering throughout the world. And it was naïve, and I think ultimately, the reason why we, as Muslims, stood on Friday and went to the mosque and took the risks on our own lives, is because we've had enough. I think the world has had enough.
Courage only counts when you can count.
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge mathematical tripos. A very sensitive mathematics don recommended that I talk to the historian of astronomy, Michael Hoskin, and the conversation led me to enroll in the History and Philosophy of Science for my final undergraduate year.
I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.