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

• 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

• 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

• As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Father
  • Boy
  • Wishes

• I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Serious
  • Prison

• At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Most Beautiful

• If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Music
  • Drawing

• The common person fears to think beyond the common.

  

  Bryant H. McGill

• You can practice and rehearse as a group forever. The only way you can learn how to do it live is on stage. The only way you can learn to be a performer is to actually perform.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Forever
  • Practice
  • Learn

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

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss