Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
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He Oliver Stone is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."
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There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
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In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it has in your experience.
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A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.
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Animals are good to think with.
