Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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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'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.
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The problem is that perception is reality.
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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
