Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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An extension of Planck's ideas, due to Prof. Niels Bohr of Copenhagen, went on to suggest that... the ultimate particles of matter would be seen to move not like railway trains running smoothly on tracks, but like kangaroos hopping about in a field.
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I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
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The problem is that perception is reality.
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While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.
