Les Claypool Quotes
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every level - in his personal life with his personal relationships and his love for his wife and his evolution with his family. Then as an artist, as an actor, as a writer, as a poet, and as a photographer. He never stopped.
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I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.
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My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.
