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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.

Tom Waits

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.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
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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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
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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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
TOM WAITS

Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
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

But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.

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