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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
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
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing

There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.

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