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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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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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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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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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
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People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
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I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.
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'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body.
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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.
