Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
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I am the Avatar of this Age!
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
