Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Choose

• Acting's boring.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Acting
  • Boring

• Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Years
  • Size

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Lose
  • Sides

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Life
  • Good
  • Business

• If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Health

• Tollywood is where I made a name for myself, and it's all thanks to the love and affection my fans have showered on me. The least I can do in return is to learn to speak the Telugu language correctly.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Language

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Shoes

• It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Failure

• Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Interesting

• Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Hope

• Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Sex
  • Identity
  • Confused

• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • World
  • Light
  • Best

• Thank you to the stellar collection of photographers, designers, editors, musicians, costumers, painters, researchers, electricians and craftspeople who without whom I'd just be a bitter man with a lot of opinions

  

  David Fincher
  • Bitter

• I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Bitter
  • Poisonous
  • Juices