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Tom Waits Quotes

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Tom Waits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Children Culture Man Singing

I like Google.

Jerry Yang

Google Like

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

John Mulaney

Story You More Sides See Both Sides

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

Tom Shadyac

Me Homeless End Behavior Sharing Up

We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.

Robin Morgan

Women History Media Powerful Forget

The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a bottled dressing, which may have been sitting on the grocery shelf for weeks, even months - even years.

Julia Child

Perfect Sitting Salad Reason See

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

Deontay Wilder

Love History Name Want I Love Put

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

Christine Todd Whitman

Care Doing The Right Thing Doing Vote

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

Claire Denis

People Tough Think End Look Fragile

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Bryant H. McGill

Mistake People Thinking Injustice

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Antoine Lavoisier

Work Myself Thought Language Nothing

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Allison Janney

Beauty Proud American Movies Like

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

Allison Williams

People Strangers React Way See Out