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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.

Tom Waits

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
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
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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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
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
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself

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