Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
TOM WAITSThe average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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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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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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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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