Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
Laura Benanti
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
Paris Hilton
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Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
Magic Johnson
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Ted Rall
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
Val McDermid
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Federica Montseny
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
Laura Ricketts
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Federica Montseny
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
Olivia Thirlby
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
Karen Bender
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Give me coffee! I'm going to write!
Olavo Bilac
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
Victor Hugo
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.
Kathy Valentine
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
Claude Levi-Strauss