Frans de Waal Quotes
I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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A will finds a way.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
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When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
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If I had come out with an album called 'Brendon Urie Does...' everyone would have been like, 'Who?' Even five albums in, I'm still faceless wherever I go, which is great.
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People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
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I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.
