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Their memorys like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it p

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

Other quotes by Tom Waits

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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car
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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. – Tom Waits

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cool
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But then Im one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. – Tom Waits

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Death
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Other Quotes from
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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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History
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. – Dalai Lama

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History

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Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses. – Jose Serrano

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Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I dont think thats extraordinary. Im a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. – Nick Offerman

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Elephants and grandchildren never forget. – Andy Rooney

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