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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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California
Thomas Alan Waits
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If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.
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I was always laughing in church.
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It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
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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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I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
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God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
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Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.
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