Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Yuval Noah Harari: Best archetype
“You want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It’s not a perfect analogy, of course, but it is the best archetype we can actually observe rather than just imagine.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Tulip Siddiq: Public safety
“As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one…is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.” —Tulip Siddiq.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Cowards of us all
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” —Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author.
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Simon Sinek: Patterns
“There may be patterns for the things that succeed, that doesn’t mean there’s a formula for success.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stephen Hawking: Real risk with AI
“The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project…
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Joel Osteen: Misery loves company
“Misery loves company. Don’t find five depressed friends and sit around and talk about how bad life is. Find some friends that are happy, energetic, positive. You need to be around people that are fun, people that laugh, people that brighten your day.” —Joel Osteen.
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Robbie Williams: Success
“It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.” —Robbie Williams.
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Anna Faris: Big sleeping bag of guilt
“Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.” —Anna Faris.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Public service
“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Katherine Schwarzenegger: Shopping
“Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.” —Katherine Schwarzenegger.
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James Watson: Young researchers
“Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.” —James Watson.
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Bella Lewitzky: Deeply rooted
“To move freely you must be deeply rooted.” —Bella Lewitzky, dancer (13 Jan 1916-2004).
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Extremely improbable
“Under existing conditions it is extremely improbable that Jesus would have been permitted to be born at all. Mary’s pregnancy, in poor circumstances, and with the father unknown, would have been an obvious case for an abortion. And her talk of having conceived as a result of the intervention of the Holy Ghost would have pointed…
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Bob Burg: Something kind and complimentary
‘Play the “Reverse Gossip” game and say something kind and complimentary behind someone’s back.’ —Bob Burg.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Sport and entertainment
‘People say, “We have no king and queen in America.” I say we have a king in America. His name is Sport; and his wife’s name is Entertainment.’ —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Brendan O’Carroll: Writing comedy
“If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you’ll please nobody.” —Brendan O’Carroll.
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Carole King: Friendship
“Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.” —Carole King.
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Marcus Antonius: Anger and grief
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” —Marcus Antonius.
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George Ezra: Makes my skin crawl
“Some people don’t care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.” —George Ezra.
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Rachel Weisz: Stand-up comedians risk more
“It’s also that comedians don’t have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They’re writers who perform their own material. It’s more interesting. And they’re sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.” —Rachel Weisz.
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Gerald Durrell: Habitat
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself.…
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Claire Foy: Symbol of power
“The coronation is a symbol of power, but it’s not a symbol for us the people. It’s a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes…
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Carl Sagan: Understanding is joyous
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” —Carl Sagan.
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G K Chesterton: Special purification and dedication
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant. There is something dangerous and disproportionate in its place in human nature, for whatever reason; and it does really need a special purification and dedication.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Howard: Won’t follow the Americans
“We won’t just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.” —John Howard.
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Selena Gomez: Therapy
“I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.” —Selena Gomez.
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G K Chesterton: No standard
“If we have no standard for judging whether anything is right, how on earth can we decide that the world is wrong?” —G K Chesterton.
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Ivanka Trump: Strong ethical compass
“My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and…
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Al Pacino: Easy to fool the eye
“It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.” —Al Pacino.
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Megyn Kelly: Racism
“I – listen, racism – being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.” —Megyn Kelly.
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Steve Buscemi: Relationships
“Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.” —Steve Buscemi.
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Julian Castro: American dream
“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.” —Julian Castro.
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Geoffrey Canada: Convincing people
“Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize – and sometimes you have to cauterize – the ones who really are against change. Theyre the kind of person who, if you tell them its raining outside, theyll fight you tooth and nail.” —Geoffrey Canada.
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Baltasar Gracian: When you counsel someone
“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” —Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658).
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Dwayne Johnson: First responders
“I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.” —Dwayne Johnson.
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Selena Gomez: Seasons, reasons, lessons
“People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.” —Selena Gomez.
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Stephan Leschka: Without metrics
“Without Metrics you’re just another guy with an opinion.” — Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard.
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Gillian Anderson: Be of service
“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” —Gillian Anderson.
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Graham Norton: Really bad interviewer
“Basically, I’m a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, ‘really, what an ordinary person’.” —Graham Norton.
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Selena Gomez: Touched by an angel
“The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I’d been touched by an angel.” —Selena Gomez.
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Sarah Hyland: Character you portray
“You’re in everyone’s homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.” —Sarah Hyland.
