I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
TOM WAITSI don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The beginning of it starts at the end.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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I was always laughing in church.
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I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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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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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.
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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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