You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSYou learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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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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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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