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 centre of gravity of any cone is the point which divides its axis so that the portion adjacent to the vertex is triple of the portion adjacent to the base.
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YouTube is so quick and so instant, and you make a video, and you can upload it the same day, whereas with a book, you have to go through a lot of time and a lot of people and a lot of processes. So it was weird to sit down and work with other people on projects, because I'm so independent with YouTube.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
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In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system.
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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.
