Les Claypool Quotes
I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
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Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
