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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Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.
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Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...
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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
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Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.
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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.
