Quote by Tom Waits
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones

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

Other quotes by Tom Waits

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits

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Imagination
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Tom Waits
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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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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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car
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Other Quotes from
cool
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Im thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside Im not. – Suzanne Farrell

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cool

I have no control over peoples perceptions of me at all and thats one of the things I decided very early on is that I cant control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things. – Macaulay Culkin

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cool

My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members cause theyre not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! – Grey DeLisle

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cool

Keep cool my babies. – Conan OBrien

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cool

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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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How much art and science, and what attention, what care is necessary to render the sun-beams which are imprisoned in a tiny polyhedron of pure carbon, brilliant and sparkling! – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, translated from French

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I wish you a tolerable Thursday. Thats all any of us can hope for. – April Winchell

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann

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