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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Tom Waits

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
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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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
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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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
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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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play

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