Les Claypool Quotes
Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
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I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
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If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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Although I have fantastic connections, I didn't know as a child what feeling secure meant.
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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
