Les Claypool Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.
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When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.
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Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope.
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Music in general is looking for something new overall.
