Tom Waits Quotes

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

Tom Waits

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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Max Lucado

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I kept hearing about this incredible guy called Tom Hardy. I started watching his work, and I was awestruck - he was amazing.

John Hillcoat

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You should not separate your life from what you do.

Jeanne Moreau

LifeYouYourShouldSeparate

I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'

Robin Sloan

CommunicationDesignValuesFind

I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.

Ross Butler

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This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Josh Hamilton

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Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' there was just such enthusiasm from fans.

Doug Liman

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I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Chris Isaak

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When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.

Colm Toibin

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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

Bob Woodward

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We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Art Hoppe

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