Levi Strauss Quotes

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

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• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
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• If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
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• With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
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• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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  • Guys
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• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.

  

  Zoe McLellan
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• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.

  

  Yelena Baturina
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• Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

  

  Samantha Power
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• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
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• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
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• I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

  

  Johanna Braddy

• Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
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• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
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• For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

  

  John Hawkes
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• We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

  

  Levi Strauss
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