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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
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Mount Kisco
New York
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.
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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.
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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.
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And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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