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 thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.
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The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.
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I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.
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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.
