Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Quotes to Explore
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
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The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
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Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
