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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Tom Waits

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
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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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

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