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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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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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Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.
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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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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 the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.
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I have a sordid past.
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