Frans de Waal Quotes
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.Frans de Waal
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley -
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie -
I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
Zach Galligan
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
Os Guinness -
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams -
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
Kaley Cuoco -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Zubin Mehta
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union -
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
Larry Hogan -
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Edmund Barton -
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
Fiona Apple -
Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
Bebe Rexha -
I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
Kat Dennings
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Most people don't have the power of persuasion.
James Altucher -
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
John Garamendi -
You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
Mark Rylance -
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.
Frans de Waal