Les Claypool Quotes
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
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I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.
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Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
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I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.
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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.
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Maybe this is just horrible bad, but I think I've had enough successes to where the journey is more important to me now. There's no guarantee, no matter what. We get one run in life.
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
