Frans de Waal Quotes
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.
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I think the average country music fan grew up the same exact way that all the artists did, listening to hip-hop and country and R&B and pop and whatever it may be.
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Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
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After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
