Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
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I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I heard some folks saying, 'I heard that warm temperatures like this happen every few years-it's normal.' I also know that a lot of people are afraid to ask what it is and what causes it... here are some answers and links: Scientific opinion on climate change
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The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
