I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
TOM WAITSMost of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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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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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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