Frans de Waal Quotes
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.Frans de Waal
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills -
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
Zig Ziglar -
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
Ha-Joon Chang -
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Pablo Casals -
I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
Rae Carson -
Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
Daniel Boulud
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo -
Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
Balaji Srinivasan -
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
Callan McAuliffe -
We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
Major Owens -
By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.
Walt Mossberg -
That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Laura Dern
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
Youssou N'Dour -
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
Vilfredo Pareto -
I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade.
Wallace Stevens -
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol -
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
James Martineau
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I've never been to anywhere in Africa except Egypt. We've never performed there, so I would definitely like to make that trip, probably to South Africa. I'd also like to score a movie from top to bottom. I've had songs in a bunch of films but never done an entire movie. I'd like to do that and have it to be a hit, too!
Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire -
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Walter Dean Myers -
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr -
Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history.
Conan O'Brien -
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.
Michael C. Hall -
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans de Waal