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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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
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Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.
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Lilia sighed. 'Why me?' she said, still shaking. 'Why should I have to tell it?''Because you’re the best liar,' Jerichau replied with a tight smile. 'You can make it true.'
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Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.
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I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
