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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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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've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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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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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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...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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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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