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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

Tom Waits

Most 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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Admire Death Feeling People
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
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
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
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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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
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.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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Desire Memories Time
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
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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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
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Busy Car Dog Move Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
TOM WAITS

Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight

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