Frans de Waal Quotes

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Frans de Waal

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• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

  

  Lake Bell
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Food
  • Service

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Selling
  • Cabaret
  • Detriment

• Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears And all the people that you made in your image, See them fighting in the street 'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God, I can't believe in you.

  

  Andy Partridge
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

  

  Emily Carr
  • Feeling

• Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • May

• The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Truth

• I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • God
  • Believe

• I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that only good-looking men with a good complexion, height and physique can be heroes, which I have managed to do.

  

  Duniya Vijay
  • Good
  • Men
  • Age

• Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • People
  • Today

• I'm the youngest of five boys.

  

  Ace Young

• As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

  

  Adam Rich
  • People
  • Band

• In 2008, 'Surfer's Journal' published 'The Next Wave' image with an article.

  

  John Van Hamersveld

• Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Game
  • Chess

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Rooms
  • Mediocrity
  • Elephant

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • True
  • Blessed

• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Character
  • Mean

• Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Elephant