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First Quotes by Tom Waits
- They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting…
- I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex... occasionally,…
- My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
- The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini…
- There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time,…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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