"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns."

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Source : "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

Tom Waits

#Confused Quotes #Gun Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.”

Source : Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.
“Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.”
“The self is every person's true enemy.”
“I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.”
“It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.”
“When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.”

Source : Song: Smoking on Purple
“Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.”

Source : Tom Kelley (2016). “The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm”, p.296, Profile Books

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