Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot … - Tom Waits

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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Tom Waits

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

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I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

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Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

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I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

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Leo Buscaglia

I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.

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Robert Reich

You ask, "Could we have an honest discussion about earnings insurance?" I think we could, if people understood that the alternative was to build up a backlash against global capital, against free trade, against technological change.

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Diana Gabaldon

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

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Scott Westerfeld

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

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Richard Branson

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

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