Frans de Waal Quotes

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 29, 1948

Topics

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Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.

Robert Reich

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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

John Perry Barlow

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If I wasn't acting, I would be trying to break into acting.

Stephen Colletti

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If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.

Roberto Orci

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I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

Mary Beard

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There's something great about driving through studio gates and leaving all your responsibilities behind.

Michelle Phillips

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When I say I'm going gangster, I'm working really hard at something.

Lisa Lampanelli

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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Jay McInerney

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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Denis Villeneuve

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I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi

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I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'

Norman Lloyd

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For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.

Nick Swardson

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