Frans de Waal Quotes

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EmpathyMoralityHumanWithout

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Mel Torme

CareerNowThreeTrueTopRight

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.

John Patrick Shanley

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I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Meta Golding

PeopleThinkHelpBackGoLiving

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Simon Helberg

HeartThinkKindWellNerdI Think

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

Ron Lewis

HomeFightWinBattleNeverAgainst

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

RuPaul

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The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music.

Matisyahu

MusicTimeLegendAmericanHoliday

To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.

Mona Eltahawy

DayMeLibraryEverythingUniversity

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

Mirai Nagasu

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I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

Lucy Davis

MyselfChildhoodHappyWayFortunate

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.

Judy Holliday

BusinessKnowNowEverythingComing

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

Dennis Bergkamp

MyselfFootballLoseWantCoach

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