Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
Frans de Waal
Recitation: by Male by Female
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
John Burroughs
LoveKnowledgePersonalityMind
When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.
Jeffrey Tambor
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A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
Ross Perot, Jr.
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I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy Cohn
FightLettersWriteLikePolite
Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.
Monica Potter
WomenGodGreatTimeFeelYou
Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.
Liu Yang
FamilyBabySoarNeverEaglesWing
I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
Jon Favreau
JobPeopleEasyYouSayWant
My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
Chrissy Metz
AloneBrotherParentsMeMomSister
As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?
Colleen Atwood
HeartLawLovedDoingYouWrong
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
Anthony Horowitz
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One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.
Penelope Cruz
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My wife Jenny and I have four young children of our own.
Todd Young
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