Les Claypool Quotes
I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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Sunlight is painting.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
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We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
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After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.
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Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
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I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.
