Frans de Waal Quotes
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.Frans de Waal
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris -
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian -
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
Tabitha King -
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle -
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
Dan O'Brien
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
A. N. Wilson -
I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
Dan Pink -
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
Rae Carson -
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
Eddy Cue -
I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Gary Lineker -
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes -
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
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Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
Charlie Trotter -
I am sure that some day the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that what we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos.
Neville Chamberlain -
I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.
Jodie Comer -
When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and I think I'm a better singer now because they have given me a greater emotional well to draw from.
Katie Noonan -
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.
Frans de Waal