Frans de Waal Quotes
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
