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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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All that you've loved is all you own
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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.
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It's hard to win when you always lose.
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using parking meters as walking sticks.
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You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home I’d rather die before I wake like Marilyn Monroe and throw my dreams out in the street and the rain make ‘em grow
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You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.
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The Music was like Electric Sugar
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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
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Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.
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When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
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We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
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I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
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