Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
Quotes to Explore
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
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I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.
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One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.
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The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
