Levi Strauss Quotes

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

Levi Strauss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902

Topics

PeopleWorthBackIndiaNowRisk

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

Andrew Sean Greer

MirrorPeopleLookRealizeMust

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Michael Eric Dyson

WorkWorldBehaviorBetterCreate

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Amir Butler

LoveFreedomDoubtDesireOppression

I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.

Stana Katic

BookBlackPrettyBigJustWidow

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Steve Sabol

InspirationalMusicFootballTheatre

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

Ron Suskind

KindStructureCellsLooseAlmost

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Mary Wortley Montagu

DayDeathHappyPeopleSayingThink

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.

Misha Glenny

WorkFatherI AmMeNameBritish

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

Lou Gramm

I AmBelieveThinkLongI Believe

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Juicy J

MoneyManChanceBackNothingGoing

I hope people can remember me as the greatest. Who knows?

Demetrious Johnson

HopePeopleMeRememberGreatest

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.

Brian O'Driscoll

WinWorldYouNewBeatGoing

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