Quote by Tom Waits
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

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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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Hope
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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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Travel
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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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Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We dont need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. – Simon Mainwaring

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History

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne

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History

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. – Henry Louis Gates

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History

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history. – Dominic Monaghan

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History

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use. – Alexander Pope

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Nature

Id love to go back to Europe in the 20s and 30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. – Michael Sheen

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At Casablanca we did Midnight Express, Flashdance, and The Deep. My willingness for risk has always been my strength. – Peter Guber

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strength

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

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Memory