Frans de Waal Quotes

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

Jessica Alba

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The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

Jennifer Armintrout

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You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Sofia Vergara

SchoolThoughtYouKnowLivingOut

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Tom Hicks

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To me, I'll always be the skinny, 5-foot-6 eighth-grader on the YMCA court, trying to get grown men to choose me for pickup games. It wasn't always easy. And that's what drives me.

Trae Young

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If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

Rudolf Steiner

FreedomI AmMeThoughtMeaningAct

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

Chris Lilley

PeopleMeThinkDoingDownReady

My first on-screen kiss was lame: Nickelodeon. But my first real-life kiss was super cute and nice, but still very awkward. It was with this hot skateboarder with dreadlocks. He was my little Rasta man.

Christian Serratos

CuteManKissNiceHotFirst

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

Alice Ripley

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Adam Lambert's continued success as one of the world's best-selling pop stars shows LGBT people that they can be themselves and make it in a mainstream industry that many feel unfairly rejects them.

Wilson Cruz

SuccessStarsPeopleWorldFeelPop

I would like everyone to feel loved by the God who gave his son for us and showed us his boundless love. I want everyone to feel the joy of being Christian.

Pope Benedict XVI

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I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.

Sharron Angle

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