I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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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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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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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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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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