Les Claypool Quotes

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

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• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  

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• I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
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• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  

  Odette Annable
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• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
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• Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Time
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• From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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• I just like being on stage and making people happy.

  

  Madison Pettis
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• I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.

  

  Eric Liu
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• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• One man assigned outside the door where Gravey sleeps or does not sleep nights gets off duty at the crack of dawn having stood parallel to the wall between them for most of seven hours, walks to his car, unlocks the door, enters through the driver’s side seat, slides across the leather into the passenger side, straps on his seatbelt, takes out his service revolver, puts it in his mouth, and shoots his body dead.

  

  Blake Butler
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• I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Air

• What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

  

  David Nabarro
  • Important
  • Clarity
  • Consensus

• I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

  

  Les Claypool