Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
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My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.
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Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
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The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
