Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
