Les Claypool Quotes

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Know
  • Chance
  • Same

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Sometimes
  • Speak
  • Word

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Stage
  • Respond
  • Strongly

• I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Simple
  • Realize

• In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Inspired

• You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • May
  • Lose
  • Loss

• 假如办十件事，九件是坏的，都登在报上，一定灭亡。那我就走，到农村去，率领农民推翻政府，你解放军不跟我走，我就找红军去。【在庐山会议上的讲话（１９５９年７月２３日）】

  

  Mao Zedong

• He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up

• Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Up
  • Time
  • Moving

• I would always talk with my friends in English and Spanglish, but it was more like slang. It was more like, 'Yo, what's up, dog?' But in Spanish, I know what's proper, and what's ghetto. I know the difference.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Friends
  • English

• I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

  

  Alex Borstein
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Control

• I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Real

• When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Great
  • Cool

• The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Chinese

• Snatam Kaur is a yogini, and I find her music deeply spiritual. I feel more love and I feel more peace when I listen to her music.

  

  John Mackey
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Spiritual

• That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

  

  Piers Anthony

• If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Reason
  • Understanding
  • Grounds

• You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

  

  Les Claypool