Frans de Waal Quotes
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
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The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
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Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers
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“Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential truth, it becomes dangerous itself. This is what makes the closest and deepest experiences of catastrophe, loss, and failure so”
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If love is exiled from cities, their good nature becomes an evil nature.
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Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.
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Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
