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Tom Waits Quotes

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1949

Topics

Writing Birds End You Sometimes Up

I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.

Respect Time Me Think Military See

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Home Feel Weekend You House Country

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

King Now Actor Writer Cable Any

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Parents Values More Something Scale

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Hope Memory Lose Valued I Hope That

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Life Relationship You Artist Strange

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Car Safety Poverty You Without High

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Medical Voting American Tradition

That's why fame freaks me out in a lot of ways - because how genuine of a connection can you have when you're a commodity, and a conversation with you means bragging rights? That's terrifying to me.

Me You Connection Conversation Why

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

Love Power Time Better Fall Romance

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Decision Politics Political Right

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

Friend Political Important Fair Open

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