Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
TOM WAITSIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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