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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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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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
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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.
