I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
TOM WAITSThere’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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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 do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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