Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
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In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
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Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster towards a finishing line that is merely the start of the next race.
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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
