Frans de Waal Quotes

If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BirdBirdsKnowWillPreyGround

I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally.

Jiah Khan

GirlHeartMyselfKindNothingGive

It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.

Jennifer Aniston

PeopleCareNiceFansManyReally

I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.

Maureen O'Sullivan

MeThinkMoreInterestGotWell

I didn't get the gene that makes me care about what other people think. I'm much like Trump that way. I don't really care. They're just words.

Ann Coulter

WordsPeopleMeThinkCareWay

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

John Sexton

WorkLiveTodayMeCaliforniaHim

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

ScienceWorldKindWhyWayOut

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

Roger Mahony

RootsProblemSolutionEmbraceLand

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

GreatWorldThinkRealityCinema

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

MotherMeSpeakKnowEverythingHow

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

KindAlwaysFictionDocumentaryEven

If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.

Phoebe Robinson

HonestGoingGetDidAppeal

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

Serena Williams

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