"If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't."
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"Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying."
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"It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country."
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"I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time."
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"Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way."
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"Chimpanzees can be quite political."
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"Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it."
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"A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive."
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"Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty."
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"The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks."
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"If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen."
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"And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not."
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"But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time."
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"I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth."
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"I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood."
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"I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings."
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"Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures."
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"A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out."
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"In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance."
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"When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them."
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