You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
TOM WAITSThere’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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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.
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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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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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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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