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 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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Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
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It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
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You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.
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Animals are good to think with.
