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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We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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Everyone loves a comeback story, and everyone loves the underdog as well. I kind of feel like I've been the underdog. Hopefully that inspires people to not give up on themselves and their lives and not give up on their dreams.
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I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
