Dar Williams Quotes

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

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• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Present
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• Friends are not made, but recognized.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Friends
  • Made
  • Recognized

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
  • Ideas

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Important
  • Very
  • Tone

• You have to open up on stage.

  

  Karen O
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Artist
  • Confidence
  • Pen

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Movie
  • Feel
  • Stars

• 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.

  

  Adam Green
  • Think
  • You
  • Hand

• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Cold
  • Everyone
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
  • Dark
  • Confusion

• 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.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• 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.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • American
  • Game

• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Control
  • Worry
  • Stress

• The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Up
  • Single
  • Present

• I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Life
  • Professional