Frans de Waal Quotes
Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.
