Les Claypool Quotes
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.
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They cherish his mem'ry, and them as sell picturs of his birthplace, etc., make it prof'tible cherishin' it.
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If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.
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I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.
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It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.
