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

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Enemy
  • Right
  • Alien

• 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

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• 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 want to wear things that make me feel good.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good

• I want to be a pretty corpse.

  

  Eva Braun
  • I Want
  • Corpse

• In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has your back unconditionally and cares for you and the material and would give anything to make sure everything is OK, makes you feel so much better. It gives you a sense of security as an artist.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Anxiety

• Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Magic Johnson is my biggest role model and I am his biggest fan. I actually met him recently and ran up to him and said, "man, I am your biggest fan, I'm P.K. Subban," and he said "I know who you are," and I was like, "what!" I was blown away just standing there talking to him and he was so nice.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Up
  • Men
  • Nice

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

  

  Les Claypool