Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I love girl power.
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
