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 grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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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 want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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When I work with a character like Valjean on stage, I get totally absorbed in that man. I become that man. But there's always, outside of that, the third eye, which watches what you're doing. And you can say to yourself, 'I'm crying well' or 'I'm being angry well.' But there's always that element there, and it never stops.
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I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
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My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.
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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.
