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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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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History
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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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Other Quotes from
cool
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It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year. – Michael Bay

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cool

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York. – Creed Bratton

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cool

In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in Amped, I focus on neural implants. – Daniel H. Wilson

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cool

I think the great sketch shows, like Python and Mr. Show, they didnt stick around for very long. Theres something kind of cool about that. – Tim Heidecker

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cool

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I dont think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the 90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. – Janeane Garofalo

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Women