Tom Waits Quotes

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

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What happens is, in my own case - my own LLCs - the income flows to my personal tax return, whatever is left over after taxes are paid, I feed my family on the one hand, and on the other hand, I reinvest in my business.

John Fleming

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I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

Melvyn Bragg

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I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

Meg Wolitzer

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As I've got older, I've got slightly more fussy. You've got less time; you need to use it wisely.

Maxine Peake

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When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

Matt LeBlanc

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If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Sidney Blumenthal

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I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

Rodney Crowell

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No one can take away what I've done in this game. Everything I've done, I've earned it so far.

Jay Park

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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Allison Pearson

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