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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Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
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Scientists are an agnostic lot, of course-well, most educated people are, aren’t they?
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I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
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I've wanted to be a professional actor for years and if you get any sort of success in that field then fame sort of comes along with it. But I don't know if I'm sort of media fodder like other people are. I'm essentially a family man.
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With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
