The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
TOM WAITSWe 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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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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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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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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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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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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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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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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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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Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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