Dar Williams Quotes
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn't believe this, or directors of the AMA, or ACA, or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
