Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
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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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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.
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The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
