Dar Williams Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
