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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.

Tom Waits

If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
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
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket 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
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
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
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality

You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.

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