Tom Waits Quotes

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Tom Waits

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LoveCarFeelYouKnowSilver

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

Joe Henderson

TimePushDistanceDefeatRace

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenMomWrongSometimesWill

Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.

Amber Rose

MePersonNeverGrudgesHoldBeing

Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some sort of deity.

Amitava Kumar

IndiaUniformBureaucracyRightHer

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Siobhan Fahey

MotherHistoryWifeHopelessTry

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

Sigmar Gabriel

GoodFreedomPeopleWorldFinancial

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

Never Give UpFaceFactsNeverUp

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

Lizzie Armitstead

MyselfI AmProudEnoughBelieving

All I ever know is what I want to do next.

Julia Holter

KnowWantNextEver

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

Josh Trank

UniqueFindMoviesExploreGoing

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Douglas Brinkley

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'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

Cindy Sheehan

GreatPeaceI AmMomProudThink

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