Les Claypool Quotes
I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.
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Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.
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I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.
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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
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Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
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I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
