Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
TOM WAITSThe beginning of it starts at the end.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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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. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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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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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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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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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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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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