Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
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The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
