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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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 trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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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.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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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.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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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.
