Frans de Waal Quotes
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Great men marry great women.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.
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I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.
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Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
