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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

Tom Waits

The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
TOM WAITS

Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITS

Hate Myself Prime
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITS

Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
You’re innocent when you dream.
TOM WAITS

Dreams Innocence Yourself
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITS

Fight Justice Myself World
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
TOM WAITS

Lying Myself Talk Truth
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.
TOM WAITS

Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITS

Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITS

Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
TOM WAITS

Children Learning Yourself
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
TOM WAITS

Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way

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