Frans de Waal Quotes
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.
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Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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I think that it's just about balance, keeping myself centered, and being happy and healthy.
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Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
