Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.
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I remember I was five or six when Elvis came out, all the girls were going crazy. I listened to his music and always loved the guitar music in the background.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
