Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.
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The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
