Frans de Waal Quotes
I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
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I am not honest.
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I got no hate in me.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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I love twins stories.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
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Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.
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The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
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In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.
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I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.
