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There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
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If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
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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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God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!
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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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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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