Tom Waits Quotes

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Tom Waits

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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Joan Blades

FuturePresentBetterCommon Sense

I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.

Jenson Button

CarStruggleJobMeThinkBetter

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GodMenWayHimOnlyYour

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

Matt LeBlanc

EarthMiseryManifold

I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

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It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.

John Quelch

WorldImpossibleYouClassCompete

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.

Tom Perez

CarSafetyPovertyYouWithoutHigh

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Ron Perlman

MoneyNothingPopulationOther

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Roz Chast

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Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Dennis Conner

DesignPlaceSailingUsedTaken

In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

Chevy Stevens

LiveAgeDayWorldYouCareer

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Brian Eno

JobYouValuesNewAlwaysWell

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