A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSI’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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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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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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