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Yuval Noah Harari

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TREVOR NOAH Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH We flew to Miami and then chartered a plane here to be on time. I'm really excited, I'm proud of him...
YANNICK NOAH The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other...
NOAH BAUMBACH It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writ...
NOAH HAWLEY Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if y...
NOAH HAWLEY There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m...
NOAH BAUMBACH I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
NOAH HATHAWAY In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, y...
NOAH EMMERICH So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.
NOAH HATHAWAY I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. ...
TREVOR NOAH The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick...
NOAH BAUMBACH The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
TIMOTHY NOAH On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus...
TIMOTHY NOAH When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.
NOAH BAUMBACH Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
NOAH HATHAWAY During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism...
NOAH FELDMAN Making 'Fargo' for FX has been the highlight of my career. A writer can search his or her wh...
NOAH HAWLEY I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they cro...
NOAH HAWLEY In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the...
NOAH HAWLEY 'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that...
NOAH HAWLEY The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it...
NOAH HAWLEY I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru...
NOAH HAWLEY 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio...
NOAH HAWLEY The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provide...
NOAH FELDMAN I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar an...
NOAH WYLE Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when ...
TIMOTHY NOAH This is the SEC. We've got to be ready at all times. We've got to be on edge. It's unacceptable.
JOAKIM NOAH We like to say it's acoustic driven rock.
NOAH SMITH Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
TIMOTHY NOAH Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own ...
NELSON NOAH Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
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