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The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done.
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You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
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I did my time in the jail of your arms
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Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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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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I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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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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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
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Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
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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 know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
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Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.
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Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town
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