Les Claypool Quotes
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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I actually hate shopping.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all-but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.
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At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.
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We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.
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One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.
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I'm a big believer in spontaneity.
