Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

Yuval Noah Harari

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PowerMeaningSingleUpContract

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

Jessie J

PeopleSayingVoiceThoughtHobby

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Joel Hodgson

CreativePeopleCoolThinkYouNice

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

Andrea Riseborough

PeopleGoldThinkUniqueMoreDust

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

Trinny Woodall

MeNegativeWorkaholicWord

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Jay Kay

NowRightStageLittleGetKnee

'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.

Jazz Jennings

LiveChildrenI AmPeopleJazzMore

The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else.

Josh Fox

WaterSafetyEnvironmentalLawRules

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Dmitry Medvedev

MentorDegreePreachSomethingAny

I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.

Suzy Menkes

NeverHimGotCloseWhoKnew

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Susan George

EducationFightHealthcareReal

Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

Noel Redding

PeopleCrazyGlassesHairPinkGrow

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Richard Le Gallienne

BelieveReadyWorstNationsEver

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