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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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Dorothy Snowden Williams
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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 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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What happened on As Cool As I Am was, you know how in the `90s, the personal is political, the political is personal? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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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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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song.
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There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
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I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
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Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.
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