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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Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.
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Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the millions of undocumented immigrants who have made lives for themselves and their families in the United States.
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She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
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New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.
