Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.Claude Levi-Strauss
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
Ed Emberley -
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
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.
Camille Paglia -
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid -
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
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I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez -
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
Ferguson Jenkins -
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran
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True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Paulo Coelho -
Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.
Bob Barker -
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.
Claude Levi-Strauss