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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.
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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, I will do a fundraiser for that guy. And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.
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