A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
TOM WAITSYou have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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There’s no prayer like desire.
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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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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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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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The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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