Frans de Waal Quotes
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
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I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
