Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Nature

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Person

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • Believe

• Was that life? Well then, once more!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Well

• When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

  

  Bruce Jackson
  • World
  • Friends
  • Die

• I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Director
  • Female
  • Scripts

• If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Death
  • Society
  • Self-help

• Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Society
  • Alone
  • Universe