Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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The fashion cycle is outdated.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!
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After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
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How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
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I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.
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We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
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I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
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I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
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I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.
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Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.
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It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.
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Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
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Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
