Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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