Tom Waits Quotes

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Tom Waits

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I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

Jillian Michaels

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My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

Jesse Ventura

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People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

Jennifer Ehle

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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Anna Jameson

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I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.

Sturgill Simpson

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I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.

Roger McGuinn

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Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

Robin Ince

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The overwhelming majority of Americans want decent and civil political dialogue, and candidates for office and elected leaders must continue to call for calm and unity, even when there are intense differences of opinion.

Jon Ossoff

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Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Diane Abbott

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It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.

Douglas Alexander

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I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

Winona Ryder

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I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.

Susan Isaacs

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