Frans de Waal Quotes
Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
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We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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Imagine that we didn't know the chimpanzee, that all we knew were those bonobos who have sex all the time and are peaceful and female-dominated and that people would say that this is our only close relative. I think we would have totally different theories about ourselves and our background. But, of course, it didn't happen that way.
