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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.

Tom Waits

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
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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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
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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Couple Myself Song Thinking Weather
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Arithmetic Boat Finding Hands Hold Myself Ocean
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick

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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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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