I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
TOM WAITSTheir 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’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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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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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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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’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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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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