Frans de Waal Quotes
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
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Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something; they tell us about the possibility of having peaceful relationships.
