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.
Quotes to Explore
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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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.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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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.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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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.
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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.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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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.'
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.
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I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
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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.
