Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.
