Frans de Waal Quotes

I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

Jill Scott

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I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.

Jesse Andrews

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I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

Jeremy Scott

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I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

Andrew Benintendi

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Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

Melanie Laurent

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When I go home, I'm not the DA. I talk to my son about his day, I talk to my daughter about her day. I'm a wife and a mother.

Jeanine Pirro

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Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

Michael Cera

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I have tender feelings for Nixon because everybody has warm feelings about their childhood. Actually, I didn't like the Watergate trials 'cause they interrupted 'The Munsters.'

Stephen Colbert

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When you do any job well, it looks very natural.

Ronny Chieng

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Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

Molly Ivins

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I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

Mirko Cro Cop

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I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Logan Lerman

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