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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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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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 don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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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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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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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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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
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Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
