Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
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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.
Manfred von Richthofen -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
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.
Carl Hagelin -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
Walter Wager
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford -
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.
Kaley Cuoco -
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.
Samantha Bond -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Gary Sherman
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx -
We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
Octavia Spencer -
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card -
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney -
As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
Octavia Spencer
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The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.
Jeanne Shaheen -
I'm not any kind of social reformer.
Charles Kuralt -
I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
Pat Buckley -
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr -
My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
Taylor Lautner -
Animals are good to think with.
Claude Levi-Strauss