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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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
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Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.
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The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
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Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
