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Quote by Tom Waits
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really ha

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone whos connected with it, the studios gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing thats left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. – Tom Waits

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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you cant remember Tell the things you cant forget that History puts a saint in every dream. – Tom Waits

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You hope people are going to be listening to you after youre gone. And they like you better after youre gone. – Tom Waits

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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 its hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. – Tom Waits

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All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, its really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries. – AnnaLynne McCord

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I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush. – Werner Herzog

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own Goosebumps attraction at Disney World Ive been on TV and had three TV series. – R. L. Stine

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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. – Herodotus

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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. – Arthur Miller

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My role in society, or any artists or poets role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. – John Lennon

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

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