Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Music is about the performance.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
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I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.
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Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.
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I think generationally, as human progress does its thing, we are constantly impressed by the upcoming generation.
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With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
