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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

Tom Waits

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
TOM WAITS

Late Myself Ride
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITS

Act Actor Difference Myself
There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITS

Desire One Liner Prayer
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music.
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Drowning Music Rescue Sound Time Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
TOM WAITS

Funny Instrument Musician Myself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
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
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood

I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

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