Les Claypool Quotes
I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark spots in my life, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be able to get out of it, but they are who they are. They followed me. They yelled at me. They screamed at me. They loved me.
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The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
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I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
