All that you’ve loved is all you own.
TOM WAITSI’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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