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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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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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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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time.
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Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.
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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.
