Dar Williams Quotes
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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.
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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 always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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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 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.
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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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The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his dayBy leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
