Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Healthy

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Law
  • Party
  • German

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Happy
  • See
  • Face

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Humor

• The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Path

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Failure

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Mistake

• One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • People
  • Different
  • Technology

• Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Future
  • Moral

• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Imagination
  • Shoes

• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Past

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss