Les Claypool Quotes
From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
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I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.
