Les Claypool Quotes
I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
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True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
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No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
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I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.
