We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
TOM WAITSThe way you do anything is the way you do everything.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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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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Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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