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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.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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Mount Kisco
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It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
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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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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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I have a sordid past.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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